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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Luminescent thread.
(b) A silent motto.
(c) A field-mouse.
(d) Disconsolate eyes.

5. 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 haphazard pile of flats.
(b) An open field.
(c) A by-pass.
(d) A factory.

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

7. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?
(a) Assertion and denial.
(b) Truth and judgment.
(c) Words and meanings.
(d) Negation of humanity.

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

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

10. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Faith.
(b) Thought.
(c) Sense.
(d) Consciousness.

11. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you have been.
(b) Where you are not.
(c) Where you will be.
(d) Where you are.

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. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Light.
(b) Truth.
(c) Death.
(d) Movement.

14. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A robin.
(b) A sparrow.
(c) A thrush.
(d) A falcon.

15. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The organ.
(b) The piano.
(c) The violin.
(d) The cello.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?

2. What must there not be in the way wherein one goes in order to get "there," according to the speaker of Part III of "East Coker"?

3. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

5. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?

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