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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. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A lazy stroll.
(b) A haphazard line.
(c) A vertical mien.
(d) A formal pattern.

2. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?
(a) The deep lane.
(b) The open field.
(c) The village street.
(d) The gray stones.

3. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) Wind.
(b) The clematis.
(c) Yew.
(d) Darkness.

4. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Truth and falsity.
(b) Dead and living.
(c) Speaking and hearing.
(d) Reality and appearance.

5. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) Bloody.
(b) First.
(c) New.
(d) Good.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?

2. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?

3. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

4. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?

5. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

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

3. What is the significance of the first 13 lines of "East Coker"?

4. What are the other echoes which inhabit the rose-garden in Part I 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 significance of the dark, mentioned repeatedly at the beginning of Part III of "East Coker," into which "they" all go?

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

8. 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"?

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

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