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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 in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) Men's curiosity.
(b) The gaze of the young.
(c) The remembrance of the old.
(d) The man of angst.

2. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Explorers.
(c) Friends.
(d) Grievers.

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

4. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Here.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) There.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?

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

4. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

5. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?

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