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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Death.
(b) Desire.
(c) Time.
(d) Love.

4. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?
(a) Other times.
(b) Other echoes.
(c) Other birds.
(d) Other footfalls.

5. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) New fires.
(b) New buildings.
(c) Factories.
(d) Eternal Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?

2. 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?

3. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

4. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

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

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