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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 does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) His love.
(b) The world.
(c) The truth.
(d) Himself.

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

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 man of angst.
(c) Men's curiosity.
(d) The remembrance of the old.

4. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) The cook.
(b) The steel.
(c) His wounds.
(d) His eyes.

5. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) The real.
(b) The disease.
(c) The truth.
(d) Despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?

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

3. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?

4. By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

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