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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 summer leaf.
(b) The moving tree.
(c) The stars.
(d) The turning world.

2. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Explicit.
(c) Spiritually imbued.
(d) Implicit.

3. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The stars.
(b) The still point.
(c) The heart of the world.
(d) The boar.

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

5. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The ethereally moving lights.
(b) The soft-spoken whispers.
(c) The smiling-eyed ancients.
(d) The quiet-voiced elders.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?

3. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?

4. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

5. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

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