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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?
(a) Inveterate scars.
(b) The drift of stars.
(c) The circulation of the lymph.
(d) Long forgotten wars.

2. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Reality.
(b) The future.
(c) All of time.
(d) The truth.

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

4. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Deception.
(b) Beginning.
(c) End.
(d) Faith.

5. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?
(a) Books.
(b) Experience.
(c) Principles.
(d) Teachers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

3. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?

4. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?

5. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

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