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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of solitude.
(b) The world of fancy.
(c) The world of sense.
(d) The world of spirit.

2. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Obstinacy.
(b) Appetency.
(c) Fidelity.
(d) Frivolity.

3. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Light.
(b) Movement.
(c) Death.
(d) Truth.

4. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of lachrymose souls.
(b) The world without man.
(c) The world of ineffable sound.
(d) The world of perpetual solitude.

5. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Truth and falsity.
(b) Dead and living.
(c) Reality and appearance.
(d) Speaking and hearing.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?

2. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?

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

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

5. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?

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