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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Where art thou?
(b) You are dead.
(c) Be still.
(d) Let us go.

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

3. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The wisdom of old men.
(b) The wisdom of death.
(c) The wisdom of humility.
(d) The wisdom of God.

4. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Death.
(b) Time.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Truth.

5. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Dung.
(b) Life.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?

2. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?

3. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

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

5. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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