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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sense.
(d) Faith.

2. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Wind.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Whispered prayers.
(d) Lies.

3. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Moon.
(b) The Stars.
(c) Venus.
(d) The Sun.

4. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) Good.
(b) Bloody.
(c) First.
(d) New.

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) Dead and living.
(c) Speaking and hearing.
(d) Truth and falsity.

6. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The piano.
(b) The violin.
(c) The organ.
(d) The cello.

7. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) Time future.
(b) The bird.
(c) Possibility.
(d) The rose-garden.

8. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Yew.
(c) The clematis.
(d) Wind.

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

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

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

12. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A sparrow.
(b) A thrush.
(c) A falcon.
(d) A robin.

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

14. 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.

15. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Memories.
(b) Children.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Whispers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

2. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

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

4. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?

5. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

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