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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) First.
(b) New.
(c) Bloody.
(d) Good.

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

3. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The bird.
(b) Dust.
(c) Time future.
(d) Memory.

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

5. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The still point.
(b) The stars.
(c) The heart of the world.
(d) The boar.

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

7. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?
(a) Not in itself desirable.
(b) Itself unmoving.
(c) The quick of movement.
(d) The cause and end of movement.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

11. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Speaking and hearing.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Dead and living.
(d) Reality and appearance.

12. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Freedom and expression.
(b) Sin and sight.
(c) Reality and truth.
(d) Heaven and damnation.

13. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?
(a) The early owls.
(b) The noonday sun.
(c) The dahlias.
(d) The sounds of summer.

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

15. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Principles.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Elders.
(d) Wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

2. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

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

4. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?

5. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?

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