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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Time future.
(b) Stillness.
(c) Disaffection.
(d) Consciousness.

2. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A passive potency.
(b) A frivolous thought.
(c) An unrealized actuality.
(d) A perpetual possibility.

3. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?
(a) Breath torrid and unworthy.
(b) Icy winds of loss.
(c) Endless smoke of briars.
(d) Frigid purgatorial fires.

4. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) I am here.
(b) The dawn wind.
(c) In my beginning.
(d) In my end.

5. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you are not.
(b) Where you are.
(c) Where you have been.
(d) Where you will be.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

2. 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"?

3. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

4. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

5. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

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