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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Death.
(c) Truth.
(d) Movement.

4. 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"?
(a) Faith.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Despair.
(d) Doubt.

5. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) I am here.
(b) The dawn wind.
(c) In my beginning.
(d) In my end.

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

7. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Memories.
(b) Children.
(c) Whispers.
(d) Fairies.

8. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?
(a) Recover what has been lost.
(b) Distance oneself from failure.
(c) Renew what has grown stale.
(d) Revitalize the human race.

9. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The hill.
(b) The earth.
(c) The sky.
(d) The sea.

10. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Wind.
(c) Lies.
(d) Whispered prayers.

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

12. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) The real.
(b) Despair.
(c) The truth.
(d) The disease.

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

14. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The sensual.
(b) The temporal.
(c) The soul.
(d) The shadow.

15. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Deprivation.
(b) Sense.
(c) Incomprehensibility.
(d) Thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

2. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

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

4. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?

5. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?

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