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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) Time.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) The wind.
(d) Men's minds.

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

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

4. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?
(a) An apodictic statement.
(b) An image.
(c) A myth.
(d) A pattern.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

3. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?

4. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

5. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

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