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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 say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) Here.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) There.
(d) Nowhere.

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

3. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The wisdom of humility.
(b) The wisdom of old men.
(c) The wisdom of death.
(d) The wisdom of God.

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 factory.
(b) An open field.
(c) A haphazard pile of flats.
(d) A by-pass.

5. What does the speaker, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?
(a) Music.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Nature.
(d) Crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

2. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

3. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?

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

5. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?

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