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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Freedom and responsibility.
(b) Death and birth.
(c) Love and loss.
(d) Autumn and winter.

2. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The boar.
(d) The dance.

3. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) January.
(b) June.
(c) November.
(d) March.

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

5. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) Despair.
(b) The disease.
(c) The truth.
(d) The real.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

2. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

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

4. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?

5. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?

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