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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Stillness.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Disaffection.
(d) Time future.

2. 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) Crying.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Nature.
(d) Music.

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

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

5. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Principles.
(c) Books.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what did the characters of "Burnt Norton"'s first part look towards the end?

2. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?

3. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

4. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?

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

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