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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The roses.
(b) The daffodils.
(c) The daisies.
(d) The tulips.

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

4. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Friends.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Explorers.
(d) Grievers.

5. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Time.
(b) Desire.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?

2. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

4. Into what did the characters of "Burnt Norton"'s first part look towards the end?

5. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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