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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Little Gidding.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?
(a) The obliteration of care.
(b) The kinship of their patrimonies.
(c) The transfiguration of the community.
(d) The strife which divided them.

2. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The horizon.
(c) The sky.
(d) The river.

3. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) Sanity.
(b) The darkness.
(c) The light.
(d) Time.

4. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The piano.
(b) The cello.
(c) The violin.
(d) The organ.

5. Where, according to the first three lines of Part V of "Little Gidding," do "we start from?"
(a) Nowhere.
(b) The middle.
(c) The beginning.
(d) The end.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

2. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

3. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What is the first of the "gifts reserved for age" that the speaker's interlocutor discloses in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

5. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?

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