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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Assurance of.
(b) Means to.
(c) Freedom from.
(d) Uncertainty about.

2. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A thrush.
(b) A falcon.
(c) A sparrow.
(d) A robin.

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 God.
(c) The wisdom of humility.
(d) The wisdom of death.

4. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Music.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Nature.
(d) Silence.

5. In the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?
(a) Fruitful.
(b) Forward.
(c) Fond.
(d) Future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?

2. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?

3. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?

4. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

5. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?

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