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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) The lotos.
(b) Children.
(c) The cloud.
(d) The bird.

3. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) March.
(b) January.
(c) June.
(d) November.

4. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Time future.
(c) Disaffection.
(d) Stillness.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

4. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?

5. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?

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