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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 does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Life.
(b) Dung.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Sleep.

2. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The recession of fecundity.
(b) The opprobrius invective.
(c) The promontory knives.
(d) The murmuring shell of time.

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 haphazard pile of flats.
(c) A by-pass.
(d) An open field.

4. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Christ.
(c) Siva.
(d) Arjuna.

5. The passengers on the train in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" are said to be not escaping from what?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

2. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

4. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

5. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

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