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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Memory.
(b) Time future.
(c) Dust.
(d) The bird.

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

3. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Thought.
(c) Light.
(d) Waiting.

4. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?
(a) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(b) Endless smoke of briars.
(c) Icy winds of loss.
(d) Breath torrid and unworthy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?

2. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

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

4. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

5. 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"?

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