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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 derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?
(a) A pattern.
(b) An image.
(c) A myth.
(d) An apodictic statement.

2. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?
(a) They are being devoured.
(b) They are being rolled away.
(c) They are being disintegrated.
(d) They are being covered up.

3. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) The steel.
(b) His wounds.
(c) The cook.
(d) His eyes.

4. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The hill.
(b) The earth.
(c) The sea.
(d) The sky.

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

Short Answer 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"'?

2. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?

3. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?

4. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

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

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