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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 first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) Time future.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(d) The memory.

2. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) First.
(b) Bloody.
(c) New.
(d) Good.

3. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The horizon.
(b) The sky.
(c) The river.
(d) The sea.

4. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?
(a) History.
(b) Temporality.
(c) Others.
(d) Action.

5. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The quiet-voiced elders.
(b) The soft-spoken whispers.
(c) The smiling-eyed ancients.
(d) The ethereally moving lights.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?

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

3. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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

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