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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The opprobrius invective.
(b) The murmuring shell of time.
(c) The recession of fecundity.
(d) The promontory knives.

2. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?
(a) The early owls.
(b) The dahlias.
(c) The sounds of summer.
(d) The noonday sun.

3. 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) Bailing.
(c) Heaving.
(d) Setting.

4. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) The darkness.
(b) The light.
(c) Sanity.
(d) Time.

5. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A whispered scream.
(b) A destructive fire.
(c) A known unknown.
(d) A deceitful visage.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?

2. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?

3. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?

4. 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?

5. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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