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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 is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The tolling bell.
(b) The intimations of doom.
(c) The voices of the sea.
(d) The seagull's cry.

2. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Light.
(b) Death.
(c) Truth.
(d) Movement.

3. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Ten.

4. 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.

5. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A destructive fire.
(b) A whispered scream.
(c) A known unknown.
(d) A deceitful visage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

2. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?

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

4. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

5. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?

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