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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 state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The truth.
(b) Reality.
(c) The future.
(d) All of time.

2. 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?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Principles.
(c) Elders.
(d) Wisdom.

3. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The dance.
(b) The heart of the world.
(c) The boar.
(d) The rose-garden.

4. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A vertical mien.
(b) A haphazard line.
(c) A lazy stroll.
(d) A formal pattern.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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

3. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?

4. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?

5. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?

(see the answer key)

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