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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The form of passion.
(b) The form of foolishness.
(c) The form of temporality.
(d) The form of limitation.

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

3. 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) Time future.
(b) The bird.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) Possibility.

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

5. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?
(a) They are being rolled away.
(b) They are being devoured.
(c) They are being covered up.
(d) They are being disintegrated.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?

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

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

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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