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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?
(a) The pattern.
(b) The past.
(c) The future.
(d) The sight.

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

3. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?
(a) Papers.
(b) Stars.
(c) Directors.
(d) Lights.

4. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A perpetual possibility.
(b) A passive potency.
(c) An unrealized actuality.
(d) A frivolous thought.

5. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Time future.
(b) The bird.
(c) Memory.
(d) Dust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

2. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?

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

4. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?

5. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

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