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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The moving tree.
(b) The stars.
(c) The summer leaf.
(d) The turning world.

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

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

4. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?
(a) The quick of movement.
(b) Not in itself desirable.
(c) The cause and end of movement.
(d) Itself unmoving.

5. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Stars.
(b) Venus.
(c) The Moon.
(d) The Sun.

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. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

3. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?

4. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?

5. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?

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