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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?
(a) The approaching headland.
(b) The receding shoreline.
(c) The dwindling sunlight.
(d) The waxing storm.

2. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The soul.
(b) The sensual.
(c) The shadow.
(d) The temporal.

3. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The tulips.
(b) The daisies.
(c) The daffodils.
(d) The roses.

4. Into what did the characters of "Burnt Norton"'s first part look towards the end?
(a) The sky.
(b) A pool.
(c) A mirror.
(d) Their souls.

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?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Principles.
(d) Elders.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?

2. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

3. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?

4. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?

5. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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