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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 not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) Wisdom of age.
(b) Autumnal serenity.
(c) Calm.
(d) Eternal respite.

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

3. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?
(a) Somber rituals.
(b) Country mirth.
(c) Solemn jest.
(d) Panicked flight.

4. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you have been.
(b) Where you will be.
(c) Where you are not.
(d) Where you are.

5. The speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?
(a) Joy.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Time.
(d) Agony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?

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

3. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?

4. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?

5. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

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