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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The shimmering water.
(b) The violent gaze.
(c) The passing van.
(d) The grey stone.

2. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) Calm.
(b) Eternal respite.
(c) Autumnal serenity.
(d) Wisdom of age.

3. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The sound.
(b) The emotion.
(c) The passion.
(d) The form.

4. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?
(a) Assertion and denial.
(b) Words and meanings.
(c) Truth and judgment.
(d) Negation of humanity.

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) Faith.
(c) Despair.
(d) Doubt.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?

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

3. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?

4. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?

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

(see the answer key)

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