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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?
(a) Country mirth.
(b) Somber rituals.
(c) Solemn jest.
(d) Panicked flight.

3. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The forest.
(b) The shrubbery.
(c) Outside the garden.
(d) Under the earth.

4. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) The bird.
(b) Time future.
(c) Possibility.
(d) The rose-garden.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?

2. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?

3. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?

4. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?

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