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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Freedom and expression.
(b) Sin and sight.
(c) Heaven and damnation.
(d) Reality and truth.

2. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) Wind.
(b) Darkness.
(c) The clematis.
(d) Yew.

3. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The violent gaze.
(b) The shimmering water.
(c) The grey stone.
(d) The passing van.

4. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) End.
(b) Faith.
(c) Beginning.
(d) Deception.

5. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The boarhound and the boar.
(b) The machinations of men.
(c) The long forgotten wars.
(d) The fixity of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?

2. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?

3. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

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

5. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?

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