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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world of ineffable sound.
(c) The world of lachrymose souls.
(d) The world without man.

3. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) His love.
(b) The truth.
(c) The world.
(d) Himself.

4. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?
(a) Late roses are filled with early snows.
(b) Late roses are filled with early rains.
(c) Late roses are filled with early tears.
(d) Late roses are filled with early bees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?

2. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

3. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?

4. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the speaker mean by saying in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that love is caught "in the form of limitation"?

2. What is meant in the lines, "But to what purpose... I do not know," in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

3. What is an interpretative possibility for the scene the speaker describes in the open field in the first part of "East Coker"?

4. What is the significance of the "Eructation of unhealthy souls," mentioned in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

5. What is the significance of the statement in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," "Words strain, / Crack and sometimes break... Will not stay still"?

6. What is the purpose of the line, repeated and modified throughout the first part of "East Coker," "In my beginning is my end"?

7. What does the speaker mean by commanding, in Part III of "East Coker," that one wait without hoping or loving, and that "the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting"?

8. What does the speaker mean in Part IV of "East Coker" when he states that "Our only health is the disease"?

9. Why is it said by the speaker in "Burnt Norton"'s second part that "the enchainment of past and future / Woven in the weakness of the changing body, / Protects mankind from heaven and damnation / Which flesh cannot endure"?

10. Why does the speaker find "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from experience" in Part II of "East Coker"?

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