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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) His love.
(b) The truth.
(c) Himself.
(d) The world.

2. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The violin.
(b) The cello.
(c) The piano.
(d) The organ.

3. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The sun.
(b) The truth.
(c) The day.
(d) The night.

4. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Deception.
(b) Beginning.
(c) End.
(d) Faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

2. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?

3. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

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

5. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?

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