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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Under the earth.
(b) Outside the garden.
(c) The forest.
(d) The shrubbery.

2. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world of ineffable sound.
(c) The world of lachrymose souls.
(d) The world without man.

3. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Penance.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Communion.

4. 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"'?
(a) Truth and judgment.
(b) Assertion and denial.
(c) Negation of humanity.
(d) Words and meanings.

5. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?
(a) Desire and despair.
(b) Natural old age.
(c) Freedom from care.
(d) Absolute paternal care.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?

2. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

3. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?

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

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

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