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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through East Coker.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?
(a) Music.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Nature.
(d) Crying.

2. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Luminescent thread.
(b) A silent motto.
(c) A field-mouse.
(d) Disconsolate eyes.

3. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) The real.
(b) Despair.
(c) The truth.
(d) The disease.

4. 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) Doubt.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Faith.
(d) Despair.

5. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Communion.
(b) Penance.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?

2. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

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

4. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

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

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