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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of being alone with oneself.
(b) Of having nothing to think about.
(c) Of starving to death.
(d) Of having no one to talk to.

2. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) Eternal respite.
(b) Calm.
(c) Wisdom of age.
(d) Autumnal serenity.

3. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) Nobody's.
(b) Their own.
(c) The petty contractors'.
(d) The Director's.

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

5. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?
(a) An apodictic statement.
(b) An image.
(c) A pattern.
(d) A myth.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

2. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

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, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

5. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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