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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?
(a) Not in itself desirable.
(b) The quick of movement.
(c) Itself unmoving.
(d) The cause and end of movement.

3. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) His eyes.
(b) The cook.
(c) His wounds.
(d) The steel.

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

5. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) The memory.
(b) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) Time future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

2. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?

3. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

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

5. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

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