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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"?
(a) Vanity.
(b) Patience.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth.

3. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?
(a) The future.
(b) The pattern.
(c) The sight.
(d) The past.

4. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Desire.
(d) Time.

5. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A robin.
(b) A sparrow.
(c) A falcon.
(d) A thrush.

Short Answer Questions

1. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

2. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

3. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

4. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?

5. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

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