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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, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?
(a) Jove.
(b) Christ.
(c) Krishna.
(d) Elijah.

2. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The promontory knives.
(b) The murmuring shell of time.
(c) The opprobrius invective.
(d) The recession of fecundity.

3. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Explorers.
(c) Grievers.
(d) Friends.

4. Between what are the "children in the apple-tree... heard, half-heard" in the last part of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Pyre and pyre.
(b) Time future and time past.
(c) Two waves.
(d) Death and life.

5. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The moving tree.
(b) The summer leaf.
(c) The turning world.
(d) The stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

2. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

3. "Over the asphalt where no other sound was," what does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" hear?

4. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?

5. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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