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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The fixity of time.
(b) The boarhound and the boar.
(c) The long forgotten wars.
(d) The machinations of men.

2. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Light.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Waiting.
(d) Thought.

3. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) The bird.
(b) The lotos.
(c) Children.
(d) The cloud.

4. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?
(a) The early owls.
(b) The sounds of summer.
(c) The dahlias.
(d) The noonday sun.

5. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of solitude.
(b) The world of spirit.
(c) The world of fancy.
(d) The world of sense.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

3. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

4. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

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

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