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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?
(a) The sight.
(b) The past.
(c) The pattern.
(d) The future.

2. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?
(a) They are being covered up.
(b) They are being devoured.
(c) They are being rolled away.
(d) They are being disintegrated.

3. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?
(a) Suggestive permanence.
(b) Transient beauty.
(c) Affective aesthesis.
(d) Lucid stillness.

4. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Stillness.
(b) Opulence.
(c) Sincerity.
(d) Distraction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?

2. 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"'?

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

4. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?

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

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