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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) His wounds.
(b) The steel.
(c) The cook.
(d) His eyes.

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

4. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The beautiful.
(b) The man.
(c) The soul.
(d) The Word.

5. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) The bird.
(b) Children.
(c) The lotos.
(d) The cloud.

6. 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) Thirty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Forty.

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

8. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Obviation.
(b) Building-up.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Belching.

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

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

11. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Light.
(c) Death.
(d) Movement.

12. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The summer leaf.
(b) The stars.
(c) The turning world.
(d) The moving tree.

13. 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.

14. What must there not be in the way wherein one goes in order to get "there," according to the speaker of Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Despair.
(b) Faith.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Ecstasy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

4. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?

5. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?

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