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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dry Salvages.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Stars.
(b) The Moon.
(c) Venus.
(d) The Sun.

2. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Elders.
(c) Principles.
(d) Ignorance.

3. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?
(a) Alive.
(b) Deception.
(c) Understood.
(d) Forgotten.

4. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?
(a) An image.
(b) A myth.
(c) A pattern.
(d) An apodictic statement.

5. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The sky.
(b) The earth.
(c) The sea.
(d) The hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?

2. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?

3. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

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

5. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?

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