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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Death and birth.
(b) Autumn and winter.
(c) Freedom and responsibility.
(d) Love and loss.

5. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Stillness.
(b) Distraction.
(c) Opulence.
(d) Sincerity.

6. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) The world.
(b) The truth.
(c) His love.
(d) Himself.

7. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?
(a) Natural old age.
(b) Desire and despair.
(c) Absolute paternal care.
(d) Freedom from care.

8. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Truths.
(b) Words.
(c) Men.
(d) Societies.

9. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?
(a) Papers.
(b) Directors.
(c) Stars.
(d) Lights.

10. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Where art thou?
(b) Be still.
(c) Let us go.
(d) You are dead.

11. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The roots of long-established families.
(b) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.
(c) The ancestral tradition of the West.
(d) Those who are dead and buried.

12. 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.

13. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A whispered scream.
(b) A deceitful visage.
(c) A known unknown.
(d) A destructive fire.

14. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?
(a) A by-pass.
(b) A factory.
(c) An open field.
(d) A haphazard pile of flats.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?

2. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

3. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?

4. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

5. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?

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