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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Implicit.
(c) Explicit.
(d) Spiritually imbued.

4. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?
(a) Itself unmoving.
(b) Not in itself desirable.
(c) The cause and end of movement.
(d) The quick of movement.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?

2. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

3. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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