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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) Here.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) There.
(d) Everywhere.

3. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?
(a) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(b) Endless smoke of briars.
(c) Icy winds of loss.
(d) Breath torrid and unworthy.

4. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Under the earth.
(b) Outside the garden.
(c) The shrubbery.
(d) The forest.

5. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Deprivation.
(b) Incomprehensibility.
(c) Thought.
(d) Sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

2. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

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

4. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?

5. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?

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