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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The moving tree.
(b) The summer leaf.
(c) The stars.
(d) The turning world.

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

3. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) The Director's.
(b) Their own.
(c) Nobody's.
(d) The petty contractors'.

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

5. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Building-up.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Obviation.
(d) Belching.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

3. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?

4. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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