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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 what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Obstinacy.
(b) Fidelity.
(c) Frivolity.
(d) Appetency.

2. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Truths.
(b) Societies.
(c) Men.
(d) Words.

3. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The wisdom of old men.
(b) The wisdom of death.
(c) The wisdom of humility.
(d) The wisdom of God.

4. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Reality and appearance.
(b) Speaking and hearing.
(c) Dead and living.
(d) Truth and falsity.

5. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?
(a) The drift of stars.
(b) Inveterate scars.
(c) Long forgotten wars.
(d) The circulation of the lymph.

Short Answer Questions

1. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. 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?

3. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

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

5. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?

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