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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) Good.
(b) First.
(c) Bloody.
(d) New.

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 ethereally moving lights.
(c) The smiling-eyed ancients.
(d) The quiet-voiced elders.

3. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Penance.
(c) Communion.
(d) Marriage.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"'?

2. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

3. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?

4. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?

5. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

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