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

2. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) There.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Here.

3. The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what?
(a) Reprieve from earthly hell.
(b) Homeward swell.
(c) Perpetual angelus.
(d) Eternal hymn.

4. 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?
(a) Mere sequence.
(b) Topological reality.
(c) Daily ritual.
(d) Chronological order.

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Sin and sight.
(b) Freedom and expression.
(c) Reality and truth.
(d) Heaven and damnation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?

2. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

3. "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"?

4. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?

5. In the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?

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