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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) The wind.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Men's minds.
(d) Time.

2. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The sensual.
(b) The shadow.
(c) The temporal.
(d) The soul.

3. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Be still.
(b) Where art thou?
(c) You are dead.
(d) Let us go.

4. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?
(a) The dark.
(b) The civil service.
(c) Art.
(d) The light.

5. What does the speaker, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?
(a) Nature.
(b) Music.
(c) Crying.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?

2. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

3. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

4. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

5. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?

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