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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) An unrealized actuality.
(b) A frivolous thought.
(c) A perpetual possibility.
(d) A passive potency.

2. 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) Truth and judgment.
(c) Words and meanings.
(d) Negation of humanity.

3. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Principles.
(c) Books.
(d) Experience.

4. 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 covered up.
(b) They are being rolled away.
(c) They are being disintegrated.
(d) They are being devoured.

5. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) The cook.
(b) His wounds.
(c) His eyes.
(d) The steel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

3. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?

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

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