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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) Time future.
(b) The memory.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) The bowl of rose-leaves.

3. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) Time.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Men's minds.
(d) The wind.

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

5. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?
(a) Late roses are filled with early tears.
(b) Late roses are filled with early snows.
(c) Late roses are filled with early bees.
(d) Late roses are filled with early rains.

Short Answer Questions

1. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?

2. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

3. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?

5. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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