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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. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Friends.
(c) Explorers.
(d) Grievers.

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

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

4. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Time.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Death.
(d) Truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?

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

4. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does it mean to say, as the speaker does in the final line of Part II of "Burnt Norton," that "Only through time time is conquered"?

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

4. What might be meant by the statement of the bird at the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, that "human kind / Cannot bear very much reality"?

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

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

7. What is meant by "Only by the form, the pattern, / Can words or music reach / The stillness" in "Burnt Norton"'s fifth part?

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

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

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

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