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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 the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?
(a) The ragged rock.
(b) Time.
(c) The halcyon day.
(d) The sudden fury.

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

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

4. 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) Movement.
(b) Death.
(c) Light.
(d) Truth.

5. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The station.
(b) The furrow.
(c) The rails.
(d) The horizon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

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

3. What does the speaker, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?

4. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

5. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?

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