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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 addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?
(a) Antiquity.
(b) Many generations.
(c) The eternal.
(d) Posterity.

2. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) The bird.
(b) Time future.
(c) Possibility.
(d) The rose-garden.

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

4. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?
(a) Panicked flight.
(b) Somber rituals.
(c) Solemn jest.
(d) Country mirth.

5. The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Experience.
(c) Books.
(d) Principles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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

3. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?

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

5. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

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