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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A formal pattern.
(b) A haphazard line.
(c) A lazy stroll.
(d) A vertical mien.

2. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) All of time.
(b) Reality.
(c) The truth.
(d) The future.

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

4. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The machinations of men.
(b) The fixity of time.
(c) The long forgotten wars.
(d) The boarhound and the boar.

5. 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 snows.
(b) Late roses are filled with early rains.
(c) Late roses are filled with early tears.
(d) Late roses are filled with early bees.

6. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The shimmering water.
(b) The passing van.
(c) The violent gaze.
(d) The grey stone.

7. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Death and birth.
(b) Freedom and responsibility.
(c) Love and loss.
(d) Autumn and winter.

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

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

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

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) Dead and living.
(c) Truth and falsity.
(d) Reality and appearance.

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

13. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of starving to death.
(b) Of being alone with oneself.
(c) Of having no one to talk to.
(d) Of having nothing to think about.

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

15. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) The rose-garden.
(b) Time future.
(c) Possibility.
(d) The bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?

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

3. 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"?

4. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?

5. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

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