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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The cold wind.
(b) The eddies of time.
(c) The gyre of history.
(d) The vacillation of spirit.

2. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Moon.
(b) Venus.
(c) The Stars.
(d) The Sun.

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

4. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their folly.
(b) Their wisdom.
(c) Their loves.
(d) Their lives.

5. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) The rose-garden.
(b) Time future.
(c) Possibility.
(d) The bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?

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

3. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

5. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?

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