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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 what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A vertical mien.
(b) A haphazard line.
(c) A formal pattern.
(d) A lazy stroll.

2. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Assurance of.
(b) Uncertainty about.
(c) Freedom from.
(d) Means to.

3. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) The gaze of the young.
(b) The remembrance of the old.
(c) The man of angst.
(d) Men's curiosity.

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

5. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?
(a) Late roses are filled with early tears.
(b) Late roses are filled with early bees.
(c) Late roses are filled with early snows.
(d) Late roses are filled with early rains.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

(see the answer key)

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