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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The dance.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) The boar.

2. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The boarhound and the boar.
(b) The long forgotten wars.
(c) The machinations of men.
(d) The fixity of time.

3. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) Wind.
(b) The clematis.
(c) Yew.
(d) Darkness.

4. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The smiling-eyed ancients.
(b) The soft-spoken whispers.
(c) The quiet-voiced elders.
(d) The ethereally moving lights.

5. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?
(a) They are being disintegrated.
(b) They are being devoured.
(c) They are being covered up.
(d) They are being rolled away.

Short Answer Questions

1. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?

2. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

5. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

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