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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) Venus.
(b) The Moon.
(c) The Sun.
(d) The Stars.

2. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?
(a) The Ageless Force.
(b) The Sempiternal Wheel.
(c) Time the preserver.
(d) Time the destroyed.

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

4. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Societies.
(b) Words.
(c) Truths.
(d) Men.

5. The speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?
(a) Time.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Agony.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?

2. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

3. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?

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

5. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

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