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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The boar.
(c) The dance.
(d) The rose-garden.

3. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Appetency.
(c) Obstinacy.
(d) Frivolity.

4. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Time future.
(b) Stillness.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Disaffection.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

3. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it said by the speaker in "Burnt Norton"'s second part that "the enchainment of past and future / Woven in the weakness of the changing body, / Protects mankind from heaven and damnation / Which flesh cannot endure"?

2. What is meant by "Only by the form, the pattern, / Can words or music reach / The stillness" in "Burnt Norton"'s fifth part?

3. What purpose is served by the string of paradoxical statements at the end of Part III of "East Coker"?

4. Why is the final sentence of "East Coker" an inversion of the first sentence?

5. What is the significance of the dark, mentioned repeatedly at the beginning of Part III of "East Coker," into which "they" all go?

6. What are the other echoes which inhabit the rose-garden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

7. What does it mean to say, as the speaker does in the final line of Part II of "Burnt Norton," that "Only through time time is conquered"?

8. How is the "here" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" described, and what is significant about this description?

9. What is signified by the speaker's questioning of the deceitfulness of the "quiet-voiced elders" in Part II of "East Coker"?

10. What does the speaker mean by commanding, in Part III of "East Coker," that one wait without hoping or loving, and that "the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting"?

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