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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?
(a) The waxing storm.
(b) The dwindling sunlight.
(c) The receding shoreline.
(d) The approaching headland.

2. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Incomprehensibility.
(b) Thought.
(c) Deprivation.
(d) Sense.

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

4. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Dung.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Life.

5. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?
(a) Other echoes.
(b) Other birds.
(c) Other times.
(d) Other footfalls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"?

2. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?

3. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

5. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?

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