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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of lachrymose souls.
(b) The world of perpetual solitude.
(c) The world without man.
(d) The world of ineffable sound.

2. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) New buildings.
(b) New fires.
(c) Eternal Death.
(d) Factories.

3. 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.

4. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) The darkness.
(b) The light.
(c) Time.
(d) Sanity.

5. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Disaffection.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Stillness.
(d) Time future.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?

2. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?

3. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

4. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

5. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

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