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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Death and birth.
(b) Freedom and responsibility.
(c) Autumn and winter.
(d) Love and loss.

2. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?
(a) Icy winds of loss.
(b) Breath torrid and unworthy.
(c) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(d) Endless smoke of briars.

3. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The cello.
(b) The piano.
(c) The violin.
(d) The organ.

4. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The passing van.
(b) The shimmering water.
(c) The violent gaze.
(d) The grey stone.

5. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Penance.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Communion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must there not be in the way wherein one goes in order to get "there," according to the speaker of Part III of "East Coker"?

2. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

3. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

4. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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