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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The shimmering water.
(b) The grey stone.
(c) The passing van.
(d) The violent gaze.

2. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Faith.
(b) End.
(c) Deception.
(d) Beginning.

3. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) Time future.
(b) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(c) The memory.
(d) The rose-garden.

4. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?
(a) They are being covered up.
(b) They are being devoured.
(c) They are being rolled away.
(d) They are being disintegrated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?

2. What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

4. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

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

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