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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Friends.
(b) Explorers.
(c) Grievers.
(d) Teachers.

2. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you will be.
(b) Where you have been.
(c) Where you are.
(d) Where you are not.

3. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Thought.
(b) Incomprehensibility.
(c) Sense.
(d) Deprivation.

4. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?
(a) They are being disintegrated.
(b) They are being rolled away.
(c) They are being devoured.
(d) They are being covered up.

5. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Stillness.
(b) Time future.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Disaffection.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?

4. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

5. 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"?

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