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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 say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The moonlight.
(b) The briar rose.
(c) The salt.
(d) The fog.

2. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?
(a) The ragged rock.
(b) Time.
(c) The sudden fury.
(d) The halcyon day.

3. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?
(a) Art.
(b) The light.
(c) The civil service.
(d) The dark.

4. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The earth.
(b) The sea.
(c) The hill.
(d) The sky.

5. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their folly.
(b) Their lives.
(c) Their loves.
(d) Their wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?

2. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?

3. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

4. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

5. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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