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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Life.
(b) Dung.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Sleep.

2. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) You are dead.
(b) Where art thou?
(c) Be still.
(d) Let us go.

3. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The cello.
(b) The violin.
(c) The organ.
(d) The piano.

4. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?
(a) A haphazard pile of flats.
(b) A factory.
(c) A by-pass.
(d) An open field.

5. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Stars.
(b) The Sun.
(c) Venus.
(d) The Moon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?

3. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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

5. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?

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