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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?
(a) Stars.
(b) Lights.
(c) Directors.
(d) Papers.

2. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Belching.
(b) Obviation.
(c) Building-up.
(d) Destruction.

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

4. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The sun.
(b) The truth.
(c) The day.
(d) The night.

5. What must there not be in the way wherein one goes in order to get "there," according to the speaker of Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Faith.
(c) Despair.
(d) Ecstasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?

2. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

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

4. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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