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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. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The roses.
(b) The daisies.
(c) The daffodils.
(d) The tulips.

2. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

3. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The wisdom of old men.
(b) The wisdom of God.
(c) The wisdom of death.
(d) The wisdom of humility.

4. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their loves.
(b) Their wisdom.
(c) Their folly.
(d) Their lives.

5. What must there not be in the way wherein one goes in order to get "there," according to the speaker of Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Despair.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?

3. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

4. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

5. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?

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 the significance of the "Eructation of unhealthy souls," mentioned in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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

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

6. 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"?

7. 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"?

8. 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"?

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

10. What does the speaker mean by commanding, in Part III of "East Coker," that one wait without hoping or loving, and that "the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting"?

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