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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of solitude.
(b) The world of fancy.
(c) The world of sense.
(d) The world of spirit.

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

5. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Time future.
(c) Stillness.
(d) Disaffection.

6. 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) Words and meanings.
(b) Assertion and denial.
(c) Negation of humanity.
(d) Truth and judgment.

7. 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) Principles.
(c) Experience.
(d) Books.

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

9. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Factories.
(b) Eternal Death.
(c) New fires.
(d) New buildings.

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

11. 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) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Time.

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

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

14. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their loves.
(b) Their folly.
(c) Their lives.
(d) Their wisdom.

15. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A perpetual possibility.
(b) A passive potency.
(c) An unrealized actuality.
(d) A frivolous thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?

2. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?

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

4. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?

5. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

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