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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you have been.
(b) Where you will be.
(c) Where you are not.
(d) Where you are.

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

3. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) November.
(b) June.
(c) January.
(d) March.

4. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?
(a) Other birds.
(b) Other footfalls.
(c) Other echoes.
(d) Other times.

5. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) The disease.
(b) Despair.
(c) The truth.
(d) The real.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?

3. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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

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

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