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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) Here.
(b) There.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Everywhere.

2. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Building-up.
(b) Obviation.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Belching.

3. 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 drift of stars.
(d) The circulation of the lymph.

4. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of solitude.
(b) The world of sense.
(c) The world of spirit.
(d) The world of fancy.

5. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) The truth.
(b) The world.
(c) His love.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?

2. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

3. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?

4. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?

5. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?

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