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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?
(a) Posterity.
(b) Many generations.
(c) The eternal.
(d) Antiquity.

2. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Books.
(c) Experience.
(d) Principles.

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

4. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Time.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Death.
(d) Truth.

5. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Penance.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Communion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

3. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

4. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?

5. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

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