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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The soft-spoken whispers.
(b) The smiling-eyed ancients.
(c) The ethereally moving lights.
(d) The quiet-voiced elders.

3. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The form of limitation.
(b) The form of passion.
(c) The form of foolishness.
(d) The form of temporality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) First.
(b) New.
(c) Bloody.
(d) Good.

12. 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 gyre of history.
(d) The eddies of time.

13. 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) Possibility.
(c) The bird.
(d) Time future.

14. 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) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(c) Icy winds of loss.
(d) Breath torrid and unworthy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

2. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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

4. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?

5. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?

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