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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The truth.
(b) The day.
(c) The sun.
(d) The night.

2. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Principles.
(c) Elders.
(d) Wisdom.

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) Autumnal serenity.
(d) Calm.

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

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

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

7. 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 spirit.
(c) The world of sense.
(d) The world of fancy.

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) Love and loss.
(b) Freedom and responsibility.
(c) Death and birth.
(d) Autumn and winter.

9. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A whispered scream.
(b) A destructive fire.
(c) A known unknown.
(d) A deceitful visage.

10. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?
(a) Principles.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Books.
(d) Experience.

11. 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.

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

13. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Reality and truth.
(b) Heaven and damnation.
(c) Freedom and expression.
(d) Sin and sight.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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

4. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

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