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

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

3. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?
(a) A factory.
(b) A by-pass.
(c) A haphazard pile of flats.
(d) An open field.

4. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The quiet-voiced elders.
(b) The smiling-eyed ancients.
(c) The soft-spoken whispers.
(d) The ethereally moving lights.

5. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Dung.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?

2. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?

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

4. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant by the "intolerable wrestled / With words and meanings" in the second part of "East Coker"?

2. What is signified by the speaker's questioning of the deceitfulness of the "quiet-voiced elders" in Part II of "East Coker"?

3. 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"?

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

5. What is a possible interpretation of the fourth part of "Burnt Norton"?

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

7. What does the speaker mean in Part II of "Burnt Norton" when he states at the still point of the turning world, "there the dance is, / But neither arrest nor movement"?

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

9. What does the speaker mean when he states in Part V of "East Coker" that "there is no competition - / There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again"?

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

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