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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The soul.
(b) The beautiful.
(c) The Word.
(d) The man.

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

3. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The daffodils.
(b) The tulips.
(c) The daisies.
(d) The roses.

4. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Elders.
(d) Principles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?

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

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

4. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

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

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