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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Societies.
(b) Words.
(c) Men.
(d) Truths.

3. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) Wisdom of age.
(b) Eternal respite.
(c) Calm.
(d) Autumnal serenity.

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) Doubt.
(c) Despair.
(d) Ecstasy.

5. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Let us go.
(b) Be still.
(c) Where art thou?
(d) You are dead.

6. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Eternity.
(b) Time.
(c) Truth.
(d) Death.

7. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) Time.
(b) The light.
(c) Sanity.
(d) The darkness.

8. 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) Autumn and winter.
(c) Love and loss.
(d) Freedom and responsibility.

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

10. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The sound.
(b) The form.
(c) The emotion.
(d) The passion.

11. 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) Art.
(d) The light.

12. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The organ.
(b) The cello.
(c) The piano.
(d) The violin.

13. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) June.
(b) March.
(c) November.
(d) January.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?

2. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?

3. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

4. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

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

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