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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 day.
(b) The sun.
(c) The truth.
(d) The night.

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

3. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?
(a) The noonday sun.
(b) The sounds of summer.
(c) The early owls.
(d) The dahlias.

4. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?
(a) Papers.
(b) Directors.
(c) Lights.
(d) Stars.

5. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Ten.

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

7. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Time future.
(b) The bird.
(c) Dust.
(d) Memory.

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

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

10. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?
(a) The dark.
(b) Art.
(c) The civil service.
(d) The light.

11. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Light.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Thought.
(d) Waiting.

12. 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 passion.
(c) The form.
(d) The emotion.

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

14. 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) Heaven and damnation.
(b) Freedom and expression.
(c) Sin and sight.
(d) Reality and truth.

15. 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) Distance oneself from failure.
(c) Revitalize the human race.
(d) Recover what has been lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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

3. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?

4. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

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

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