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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 speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?
(a) Joy.
(b) Time.
(c) Revelation.
(d) Agony.

2. What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"?
(a) Time.
(b) Truth.
(c) Patience.
(d) Vanity.

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

4. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?
(a) A haphazard pile of flats.
(b) An open field.
(c) A factory.
(d) A by-pass.

5. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?
(a) Revitalize the human race.
(b) Renew what has grown stale.
(c) Recover what has been lost.
(d) Distance oneself from failure.

Short Answer Questions

1. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?

2. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?

3. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

5. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

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