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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of fancy.
(b) The world of solitude.
(c) The world of spirit.
(d) The world of sense.

2. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) Time.

3. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Light.
(c) Death.
(d) Movement.

4. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) Wind.
(b) Yew.
(c) The clematis.
(d) Darkness.

5. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?
(a) The drift of stars.
(b) Long forgotten wars.
(c) Inveterate scars.
(d) The circulation of the lymph.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?

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

4. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

5. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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