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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The boar.
(c) The still point.
(d) The stars.

2. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A thrush.
(b) A falcon.
(c) A sparrow.
(d) A robin.

3. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The temporal.
(b) The sensual.
(c) The soul.
(d) The shadow.

4. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Faith.
(b) Deception.
(c) Beginning.
(d) End.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

3. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

4. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

5. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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