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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The turning world.
(b) The moving tree.
(c) The stars.
(d) The summer leaf.

2. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Here.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) There.

3. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?
(a) The village street.
(b) The open field.
(c) The gray stones.
(d) The deep lane.

4. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Memories.
(b) Children.
(c) Whispers.
(d) Fairies.

5. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Faith.
(b) Deception.
(c) End.
(d) Beginning.

6. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) The bird.
(b) The lotos.
(c) Children.
(d) The cloud.

7. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?
(a) The pattern.
(b) The sight.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

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

9. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Communion.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Penance.
(d) Baptism.

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

11. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Stars.
(b) Venus.
(c) The Moon.
(d) The Sun.

12. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?
(a) An image.
(b) An apodictic statement.
(c) A pattern.
(d) A myth.

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

14. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The gyre of history.
(b) The vacillation of spirit.
(c) The eddies of time.
(d) The cold wind.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?

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

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

5. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?

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