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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) The cloud.
(b) The bird.
(c) The lotos.
(d) Children.

2. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The gyre of history.
(b) The cold wind.
(c) The vacillation of spirit.
(d) The eddies of time.

3. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A perpetual possibility.
(b) An unrealized actuality.
(c) A passive potency.
(d) A frivolous thought.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?

4. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?

5. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?

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