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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The sound.
(b) The form.
(c) The passion.
(d) The emotion.

2. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Principles.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Elders.

3. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Time future.
(b) Dust.
(c) Memory.
(d) The bird.

4. 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 violin.
(c) The cello.
(d) The piano.

5. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Children.
(b) Memories.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Whispers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

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

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