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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Freedom and expression.
(b) Heaven and damnation.
(c) Sin and sight.
(d) Reality and truth.

2. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A frivolous thought.
(b) A passive potency.
(c) A perpetual possibility.
(d) An unrealized actuality.

3. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?
(a) Natural old age.
(b) Desire and despair.
(c) Absolute paternal care.
(d) Freedom from care.

4. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) First.
(b) Good.
(c) New.
(d) Bloody.

5. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The shadow.
(b) The sensual.
(c) The soul.
(d) The temporal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

2. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?

3. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

4. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?

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

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