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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Truth.
(b) Time.
(c) Death.
(d) Eternity.

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

3. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) March.
(b) November.
(c) June.
(d) January.

4. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) Possibility.
(b) The bird.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) Time future.

5. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Those who are dead and buried.
(b) The roots of long-established families.
(c) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.
(d) The ancestral tradition of the West.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?

2. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?

3. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?

4. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

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

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