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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The bedded axle-tree.
(b) The memory of inveterate scars.
(c) The still point of the turning world.
(d) The artery of truth.

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 are not.
(c) Where you have been.
(d) Where you are.

3. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A lazy stroll.
(b) A haphazard line.
(c) A formal pattern.
(d) A vertical mien.

4. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their lives.
(b) Their folly.
(c) Their wisdom.
(d) Their loves.

5. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Luminescent thread.
(b) A silent motto.
(c) A field-mouse.
(d) Disconsolate eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?

2. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?

4. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

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