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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The artery of truth.
(b) The still point of the turning world.
(c) The memory of inveterate scars.
(d) The bedded axle-tree.

3. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The emotion.
(b) The sound.
(c) The passion.
(d) The form.

4. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?
(a) Art.
(b) The civil service.
(c) The dark.
(d) The light.

5. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?
(a) Suggestive permanence.
(b) Lucid stillness.
(c) Affective aesthesis.
(d) Transient beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

3. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?

4. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?

5. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

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