1. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of having no one to talk to.
(b) Of having nothing to think about.
(c) Of starving to death.
(d) Of being alone with oneself.

2. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Spiritually imbued.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Implicit.
(d) Explicit.

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

4. Into what did the characters of "Burnt Norton"'s first part look towards the end?
(a) Their souls.
(b) A pool.
(c) The sky.
(d) A mirror.

5. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Reality and appearance.
(b) Speaking and hearing.
(c) Dead and living.
(d) Truth and falsity.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

3. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

4. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?

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

(see the answer key)

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