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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The hill.
(b) The sea.
(c) The earth.
(d) The sky.

2. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?
(a) Principles.
(b) Experience.
(c) Books.
(d) Teachers.

3. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The form of temporality.
(b) The form of limitation.
(c) The form of foolishness.
(d) The form of passion.

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

5. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Life.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Dung.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

2. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

3. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?

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

5. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?

(see the answer key)

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