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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you will be.
(b) Where you are not.
(c) Where you are.
(d) Where you have been.

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

3. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Explicit.
(c) Implicit.
(d) Spiritually imbued.

4. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?
(a) The early owls.
(b) The noonday sun.
(c) The sounds of summer.
(d) The dahlias.

5. Into what did the characters of "Burnt Norton"'s first part look towards the end?
(a) A pool.
(b) A mirror.
(c) Their souls.
(d) The sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

2. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?

3. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

4. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?

5. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

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