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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Bereaved women.
(b) Pagans.
(c) All Christians.
(d) Immigrants.

2. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) His love.
(b) Himself.
(c) The truth.
(d) The world.

3. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Building-up.
(b) Belching.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Obviation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?

2. 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?

3. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?

4. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

5. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

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