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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Life.
(d) Dung.

2. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The soft-spoken whispers.
(b) The quiet-voiced elders.
(c) The smiling-eyed ancients.
(d) The ethereally moving lights.

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

4. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) Time future.
(b) The memory.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) The bowl of rose-leaves.

5. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you will be.
(b) Where you are not.
(c) Where you are.
(d) Where you have been.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

2. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?

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

4. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?

5. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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