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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) The wind.
(b) Men's minds.
(c) Truth and falsity.
(d) Time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?

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

3. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

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

5. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?

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