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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The sky.
(b) The hill.
(c) The earth.
(d) The sea.

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

3. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?
(a) The village street.
(b) The open field.
(c) The gray stones.
(d) The deep lane.

4. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) The disease.
(b) Despair.
(c) The truth.
(d) The real.

5. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you are.
(b) Where you have been.
(c) Where you are not.
(d) Where you will be.

6. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A falcon.
(b) A robin.
(c) A sparrow.
(d) A thrush.

7. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Whispered prayers.
(c) Lies.
(d) Wind.

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

9. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The sensual.
(b) The temporal.
(c) The soul.
(d) The shadow.

10. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The ancestral tradition of the West.
(b) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.
(c) Those who are dead and buried.
(d) The roots of long-established families.

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

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

13. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Autumn and winter.
(b) Love and loss.
(c) Death and birth.
(d) Freedom and responsibility.

14. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Here.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) There.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

3. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

4. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

5. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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