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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Grievers.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Friends.
(d) Explorers.

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

3. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Deception.
(b) Beginning.
(c) Faith.
(d) End.

4. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of starving to death.
(b) Of being alone with oneself.
(c) Of having no one to talk to.
(d) Of having nothing to think about.

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Freedom and expression.
(b) Heaven and damnation.
(c) Reality and truth.
(d) Sin and sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?

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

3. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

4. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

5. 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?

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