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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Obstinacy.
(b) Fidelity.
(c) Frivolity.
(d) Appetency.

2. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?
(a) Suggestive permanence.
(b) Lucid stillness.
(c) Affective aesthesis.
(d) Transient beauty.

3. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The boar.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) The dance.

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

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

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

7. 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) Elders.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Principles.

8. 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) Breath torrid and unworthy.
(d) Frigid purgatorial fires.

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

10. 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.

11. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Life.
(b) Dung.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Sleep.

12. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The memory of inveterate scars.
(b) The artery of truth.
(c) The still point of the turning world.
(d) The bedded axle-tree.

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

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

15. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Spiritually imbued.
(b) Explicit.
(c) Implicit.
(d) Ecstatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?

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

3. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?

4. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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