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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The still point.
(b) The boar.
(c) The heart of the world.
(d) The stars.

2. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The beautiful.
(b) The Word.
(c) The soul.
(d) The man.

3. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?
(a) Desire and despair.
(b) Freedom from care.
(c) Natural old age.
(d) Absolute paternal care.

4. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The ancestral tradition of the West.
(b) Those who are dead and buried.
(c) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.
(d) The roots of long-established families.

5. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A whispered scream.
(b) A destructive fire.
(c) A known unknown.
(d) A deceitful visage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

3. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?

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

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

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