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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 is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The boar.
(b) The heart of the world.
(c) The dance.
(d) The rose-garden.

2. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?
(a) Jove.
(b) Krishna.
(c) Elijah.
(d) Christ.

3. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The sound.
(b) The form.
(c) The passion.
(d) The emotion.

4. According to the speaker, the brown god's rhythm "was present in the nursery bedroom, / In the rank ailanthus of" the dooryard of what month?
(a) March.
(b) April.
(c) September.
(d) July.

5. What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"?
(a) Vanity.
(b) Patience.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

2. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

3. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?

4. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?

5. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

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