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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The form of temporality.
(b) The form of passion.
(c) The form of foolishness.
(d) The form of limitation.

2. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?
(a) A pattern.
(b) An apodictic statement.
(c) An image.
(d) A myth.

3. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Autumn and winter.
(b) Love and loss.
(c) Death and birth.
(d) Freedom and responsibility.

4. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The sound.
(b) The form.
(c) The emotion.
(d) The passion.

5. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) A silent motto.
(b) Disconsolate eyes.
(c) Luminescent thread.
(d) A field-mouse.

6. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Destruction.
(b) Building-up.
(c) Obviation.
(d) Belching.

7. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Forty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

8. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of ineffable sound.
(b) The world of perpetual solitude.
(c) The world without man.
(d) The world of lachrymose souls.

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

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

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

12. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) Time future.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The memory.
(d) The bowl of rose-leaves.

13. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Thought.
(c) Faith.
(d) Sense.

14. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?
(a) Natural old age.
(b) Desire and despair.
(c) Freedom from care.
(d) Absolute paternal care.

15. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?
(a) Late roses are filled with early bees.
(b) Late roses are filled with early rains.
(c) Late roses are filled with early snows.
(d) Late roses are filled with early tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?

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

3. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

4. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

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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