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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) Assertion and denial.
(b) Negation of humanity.
(c) Truth and judgment.
(d) Words and meanings.

2. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of fancy.
(b) The world of solitude.
(c) The world of spirit.
(d) The world of sense.

3. 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 village street.
(b) The open field.
(c) The gray stones.
(d) The deep lane.

4. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The roses.
(b) The daffodils.
(c) The daisies.
(d) The tulips.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. What does the speaker, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?

4. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?

5. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

(see the answer key)

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