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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 state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Love.
(b) Time.
(c) Death.
(d) Desire.

2. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The smiling-eyed ancients.
(b) The quiet-voiced elders.
(c) The soft-spoken whispers.
(d) The ethereally moving lights.

3. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) Men's minds.
(b) The wind.
(c) Truth and falsity.
(d) Time.

4. What does the speaker, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?
(a) Nature.
(b) Crying.
(c) Music.
(d) Nothing.

5. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A haphazard line.
(b) A formal pattern.
(c) A lazy stroll.
(d) A vertical mien.

Short Answer Questions

1. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?

2. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?

3. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

5. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?

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