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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) New fires.
(b) Factories.
(c) New buildings.
(d) Eternal Death.

2. 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) Experience.
(d) Books.

3. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) The truth.
(b) The disease.
(c) Despair.
(d) The real.

4. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?
(a) The noonday sun.
(b) The sounds of summer.
(c) The early owls.
(d) The dahlias.

5. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Reality and appearance.
(b) Dead and living.
(c) Speaking and hearing.
(d) Truth and falsity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

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

3. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

4. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?

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

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