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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) Their own.
(b) The petty contractors'.
(c) Nobody's.
(d) The Director's.

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

3. 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?
(a) Elders.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Principles.

4. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Distraction.
(b) Stillness.
(c) Sincerity.
(d) Opulence.

5. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) Calm.
(b) Wisdom of age.
(c) Eternal respite.
(d) Autumnal serenity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?

2. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?

3. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?

5. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is signified by the speaker's questioning of the deceitfulness of the "quiet-voiced elders" in Part II of "East Coker"?

2. What is meant by "Only by the form, the pattern, / Can words or music reach / The stillness" in "Burnt Norton"'s fifth part?

3. What does the speaker mean in Part II of "Burnt Norton" when he states at the still point of the turning world, "there the dance is, / But neither arrest nor movement"?

4. How is the "here" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" described, and what is significant about this description?

5. What does the speaker mean by commanding, in Part III of "East Coker," that one wait without hoping or loving, and that "the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting"?

6. What is the significance of the "Eructation of unhealthy souls," mentioned in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

7. Who is the "wounded surgeon" of Part IV of "East Coker," and what indicates this within the stanza?

8. What does the speaker mean by saying in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that love is caught "in the form of limitation"?

9. Why does the speaker of "East Coker" want only to hear of the folly of old men, in Part II of "East Coker"?

10. Why is it said by the speaker in "Burnt Norton"'s second part that "the enchainment of past and future / Woven in the weakness of the changing body, / Protects mankind from heaven and damnation / Which flesh cannot endure"?

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