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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of being alone with oneself.
(b) Of having nothing to think about.
(c) Of starving to death.
(d) Of having no one to talk to.

3. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) A silent motto.
(b) A field-mouse.
(c) Disconsolate eyes.
(d) Luminescent thread.

4. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The bird.
(b) Time future.
(c) Dust.
(d) Memory.

5. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) Their own.
(b) The Director's.
(c) Nobody's.
(d) The petty contractors'.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

2. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?

3. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

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

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

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