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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their lives.
(b) Their loves.
(c) Their folly.
(d) Their wisdom.

3. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) Despair.
(b) The disease.
(c) The real.
(d) The truth.

4. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Societies.
(b) Words.
(c) Truths.
(d) Men.

5. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Moon.
(b) The Sun.
(c) Venus.
(d) The Stars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

3. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

4. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?

5. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?

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