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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) A silent motto.
(b) A field-mouse.
(c) Luminescent thread.
(d) Disconsolate eyes.

2. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Reality and appearance.
(b) Dead and living.
(c) Truth and falsity.
(d) Speaking and hearing.

3. 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) Words and meanings.
(b) Negation of humanity.
(c) Assertion and denial.
(d) Truth and judgment.

4. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their wisdom.
(b) Their loves.
(c) Their lives.
(d) Their folly.

5. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The summer leaf.
(b) The turning world.
(c) The stars.
(d) The moving tree.

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

7. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Men.
(b) Societies.
(c) Words.
(d) Truths.

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

9. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?
(a) Breath torrid and unworthy.
(b) Icy winds of loss.
(c) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(d) Endless smoke of briars.

10. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The violin.
(b) The cello.
(c) The organ.
(d) The piano.

11. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?
(a) Freedom from care.
(b) Absolute paternal care.
(c) Desire and despair.
(d) Natural old age.

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

13. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) New buildings.
(b) New fires.
(c) Factories.
(d) Eternal Death.

14. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) The truth.
(b) The world.
(c) His love.
(d) Himself.

15. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?
(a) Solemn jest.
(b) Country mirth.
(c) Somber rituals.
(d) Panicked flight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?

2. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?

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

4. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?

5. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

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