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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The artery of truth.
(b) The bedded axle-tree.
(c) The still point of the turning world.
(d) The memory of inveterate scars.

3. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A deceitful visage.
(b) A destructive fire.
(c) A whispered scream.
(d) A known unknown.

4. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) New buildings.
(b) New fires.
(c) Factories.
(d) Eternal Death.

5. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?
(a) Revitalize the human race.
(b) Recover what has been lost.
(c) Distance oneself from failure.
(d) Renew what has grown stale.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

2. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?

3. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

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

5. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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