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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. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The still point.
(b) The boar.
(c) The heart of the world.
(d) The stars.

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

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

4. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The form of temporality.
(b) The form of foolishness.
(c) The form of limitation.
(d) The form of passion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

2. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?

3. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?

4. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the speaker claim in Part II of "Burnt Norton" that "To be conscious is not to be in time"?

2. What is the significance of the dark, mentioned repeatedly at the beginning of Part III of "East Coker," into which "they" all go?

3. Why does the speaker of "East Coker" want only to hear of the folly of old men, in Part II of "East Coker"?

4. What is meant in "Burnt Norton"'s first part by "What might have been... a world of speculation," lines 6-8?

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

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

7. How is the "here" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" described, and what is significant about this description?

8. 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"?

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

10. 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"?

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