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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Lies.
(b) Whispered prayers.
(c) Wind.
(d) Smoke.

2. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Explicit.
(c) Spiritually imbued.
(d) Implicit.

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"?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Thirty.

4. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The forest.
(b) Outside the garden.
(c) The shrubbery.
(d) Under the earth.

5. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?
(a) Man.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?

2. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

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

5. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

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