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

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

3. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Death.
(b) Light.
(c) Movement.
(d) Truth.

4. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The soul.
(b) The Word.
(c) The beautiful.
(d) The man.

5. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?
(a) Icy winds of loss.
(b) Breath torrid and unworthy.
(c) Endless smoke of briars.
(d) Frigid purgatorial fires.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

2. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

3. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?

5. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the speaker mean in the latter lines of Part III of "Burnt Norton" when he states that "This is the one way, and the other / Is the same"?

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

3. 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"?

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

5. Who is the "wounded surgeon" of Part IV of "East Coker," and what indicates this within the stanza?

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

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

8. 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"?

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

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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