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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) Uncertainty about.
(c) Means to.
(d) Freedom from.

2. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?
(a) End.
(b) Destination.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Sense.

3. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Time.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) Desire.

4. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The still point of the turning world.
(b) The artery of truth.
(c) The memory of inveterate scars.
(d) The bedded axle-tree.

5. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?
(a) Christ's.
(b) Krishna's.
(c) Mars'.
(d) The Lady's.

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

3. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?

4. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

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