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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Time.
(c) Being.
(d) Thought.

2. The third part of "Little Gidding" says that Sin is what?
(a) Behovely.
(b) Impressive.
(c) Inexpedient.
(d) Homely.

3. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Thought.
(b) Sense.
(c) Faith.
(d) Consciousness.

4. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) Possibility.
(b) The bird.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) Time future.

5. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) Nobody's.
(b) The petty contractors'.
(c) Their own.
(d) The Director's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what?

2. The speaker states in Part III of "Little Gidding" that "It is not to ring the bell backward / Nor is it an incantation / To summon the spectre of a" what?

3. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?

4. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

5. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?

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