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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker NOT say man must think of as forever doing in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Hauling.
(b) Setting.
(c) Bailing.
(d) Heaving.

2. By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Kings.
(b) All mankind.
(c) City dwellers.
(d) Farmers.

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

4. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The mystic.
(b) The philosopher.
(c) The saint.
(d) The common man.

5. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Outside the garden.
(b) The forest.
(c) Under the earth.
(d) The shrubbery.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?

2. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

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

4. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?

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

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