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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. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Faith.
(c) Thought.
(d) Sense.

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

3. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) The truth.
(b) His love.
(c) Himself.
(d) The world.

4. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?
(a) Long forgotten wars.
(b) The drift of stars.
(c) The circulation of the lymph.
(d) Inveterate scars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?

2. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?

3. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

4. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?

5. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is an interpretative possibility for the final four lines of the first part of "East Coker"?

3. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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 signified by the phrase in Part III of "East Coker," "the growing terror of nothing to think about"?

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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