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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?
(a) The dark.
(b) The civil service.
(c) The light.
(d) Art.

2. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The fixity of time.
(b) The machinations of men.
(c) The boarhound and the boar.
(d) The long forgotten wars.

3. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Lies.
(c) Whispered prayers.
(d) Wind.

4. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) All of time.
(b) The truth.
(c) The future.
(d) Reality.

5. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Thought.
(c) Waiting.
(d) Light.

6. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The dawn wind.
(b) In my beginning.
(c) I am here.
(d) In my end.

7. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?
(a) Truth.
(b) Time.
(c) Man.
(d) Love.

8. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Explorers.
(b) Grievers.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Friends.

9. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?
(a) Endless smoke of briars.
(b) Breath torrid and unworthy.
(c) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(d) Icy winds of loss.

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

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

12. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?
(a) Late roses are filled with early bees.
(b) Late roses are filled with early tears.
(c) Late roses are filled with early rains.
(d) Late roses are filled with early snows.

13. 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 devoured.
(b) They are being rolled away.
(c) They are being disintegrated.
(d) They are being covered up.

14. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) His wounds.
(b) The cook.
(c) The steel.
(d) His eyes.

15. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of solitude.
(b) The world of spirit.
(c) The world of fancy.
(d) The world of sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

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

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

4. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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