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

2. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) The real.
(b) The disease.
(c) Despair.
(d) The truth.

3. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Books.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Principles.

4. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?
(a) Truth and judgment.
(b) Words and meanings.
(c) Negation of humanity.
(d) Assertion and denial.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

2. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

3. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the other echoes which inhabit the rose-garden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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

4. What is signified by the statement "Distracted from distraction by distraction" in "Burnt Norton"'s third part?

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 significance of the first 13 lines of "East Coker"?

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

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

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

10. Why is the final sentence of "East Coker" an inversion of the first sentence?

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