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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of lachrymose souls.
(b) The world without man.
(c) The world of perpetual solitude.
(d) The world of ineffable sound.

2. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?
(a) Late roses are filled with early tears.
(b) Late roses are filled with early bees.
(c) Late roses are filled with early rains.
(d) Late roses are filled with early snows.

3. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) Possibility.
(b) Time future.
(c) The bird.
(d) The rose-garden.

4. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?
(a) Deception.
(b) Alive.
(c) Forgotten.
(d) Understood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?

2. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?

3. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?

4. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

5. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?

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