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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?
(a) The civil service.
(b) The light.
(c) Art.
(d) The dark.

2. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) In my end.
(b) The dawn wind.
(c) I am here.
(d) In my beginning.

3. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The bedded axle-tree.
(b) The artery of truth.
(c) The still point of the turning world.
(d) The memory of inveterate scars.

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

5. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Time.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Desire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

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

4. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

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