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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The gyre of history.
(b) The vacillation of spirit.
(c) The eddies of time.
(d) The cold wind.

3. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) Calm.
(b) Wisdom of age.
(c) Autumnal serenity.
(d) Eternal respite.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?

3. What must there not be in the way wherein one goes in order to get "there," according to the speaker of Part III of "East Coker"?

4. 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?

5. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?

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