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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 sensual.
(c) The shadow.
(d) The temporal.

2. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) In my end.
(b) The dawn wind.
(c) In my beginning.
(d) I am here.

3. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The tulips.
(b) The daisies.
(c) The daffodils.
(d) The roses.

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

5. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Incomprehensibility.
(b) Thought.
(c) Deprivation.
(d) Sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?

2. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?

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

4. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

5. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?

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