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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Luminescent thread.
(b) Disconsolate eyes.
(c) A silent motto.
(d) A field-mouse.

2. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of solitude.
(b) The world of sense.
(c) The world of spirit.
(d) The world of fancy.

3. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?
(a) Annunciation.
(b) Amelioration.
(c) Apocalypse.
(d) Assumption.

4. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you have been.
(b) Where you are not.
(c) Where you are.
(d) Where you will be.

5. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The emotion.
(b) The passion.
(c) The sound.
(d) The form.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

2. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

3. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

4. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

5. What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

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