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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 are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The eddies of time.
(b) The cold wind.
(c) The gyre of history.
(d) The vacillation of spirit.

2. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) Men's curiosity.
(b) The gaze of the young.
(c) The man of angst.
(d) The remembrance of the old.

3. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The roots of long-established families.
(b) The ancestral tradition of the West.
(c) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.
(d) Those who are dead and buried.

4. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Freedom and responsibility.
(b) Autumn and winter.
(c) Death and birth.
(d) Love and loss.

5. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) The lotos.
(b) Children.
(c) The bird.
(d) The cloud.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?

2. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?

3. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?

4. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?

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

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