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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) Death.
(c) Time.
(d) Desire.

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

3. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The beautiful.
(b) The Word.
(c) The man.
(d) The soul.

4. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Thought.
(b) Incomprehensibility.
(c) Deprivation.
(d) Sense.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?

3. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

5. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?

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