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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?
(a) Time.
(b) Truth.
(c) Man.
(d) Love.

2. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Thought.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Faith.
(d) Sense.

3. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A haphazard line.
(b) A formal pattern.
(c) A vertical mien.
(d) A lazy stroll.

4. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Death.
(b) Time.
(c) Truth.
(d) Eternity.

5. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?
(a) The sight.
(b) The pattern.
(c) The past.
(d) The future.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?

2. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

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"?

4. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?

5. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?

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