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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A frivolous thought.
(b) A perpetual possibility.
(c) A passive potency.
(d) An unrealized actuality.

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

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

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

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

9. 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 bird.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) Time future.
(d) Possibility.

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

11. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?
(a) Love.
(b) Truth.
(c) Man.
(d) Time.

12. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Implicit.
(b) Spiritually imbued.
(c) Explicit.
(d) Ecstatic.

13. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The wisdom of God.
(b) The wisdom of old men.
(c) The wisdom of humility.
(d) The wisdom of death.

14. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The eddies of time.
(b) The vacillation of spirit.
(c) The cold wind.
(d) The gyre of history.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?

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

5. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

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