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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The shrubbery.
(b) Outside the garden.
(c) Under the earth.
(d) The forest.

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

3. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?
(a) Other times.
(b) Other footfalls.
(c) Other echoes.
(d) Other birds.

4. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The still point.
(b) The heart of the world.
(c) The boar.
(d) The stars.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

3. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

4. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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