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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty.

2. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The daisies.
(b) The daffodils.
(c) The roses.
(d) The tulips.

3. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?
(a) Other times.
(b) Other birds.
(c) Other footfalls.
(d) Other echoes.

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

5. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The stars.
(b) The moving tree.
(c) The turning world.
(d) The summer leaf.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?

2. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?

3. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?

4. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. 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?

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