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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?
(a) Truth and judgment.
(b) Assertion and denial.
(c) Words and meanings.
(d) Negation of humanity.

2. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The rose-garden.
(b) The boar.
(c) The heart of the world.
(d) The dance.

3. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) The world.
(b) His love.
(c) Himself.
(d) The truth.

4. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Elders.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Principles.

5. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?
(a) Art.
(b) The dark.
(c) The civil service.
(d) The light.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?

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

3. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?

4. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

5. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

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