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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through East Coker.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?
(a) Truth and judgment.
(b) Negation of humanity.
(c) Assertion and denial.
(d) Words and meanings.

2. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Wind.
(c) Whispered prayers.
(d) Lies.

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

4. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) Wind.
(b) Darkness.
(c) The clematis.
(d) Yew.

5. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?
(a) The deep lane.
(b) The gray stones.
(c) The open field.
(d) The village street.

Short Answer Questions

1. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

2. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

3. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?

4. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

5. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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