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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) Explicit.
(b) Implicit.
(c) Ecstatic.
(d) Spiritually imbued.

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

3. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Love.
(b) Time.
(c) Death.
(d) Desire.

4. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Elders.
(c) Principles.
(d) Wisdom.

5. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The soul.
(b) The shadow.
(c) The temporal.
(d) The sensual.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?

2. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?

3. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

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

5. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What purpose is served by the string of paradoxical statements at the end of Part III of "East Coker"?

3. What is the significance of the dark, mentioned repeatedly at the beginning of Part III of "East Coker," into which "they" all go?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is the "here" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" described, and what is significant about this description?

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

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