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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) Bloody.
(b) First.
(c) Good.
(d) New.

2. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Music.
(b) Nature.
(c) Silence.
(d) Wisdom.

3. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?
(a) A factory.
(b) A by-pass.
(c) A haphazard pile of flats.
(d) An open field.

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

5. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The beautiful.
(b) The soul.
(c) The man.
(d) The Word.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

2. The passengers on the train in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" are said to be not escaping from what?

3. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?

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

5. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

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