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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?
(a) A haphazard pile of flats.
(b) A by-pass.
(c) A factory.
(d) An open field.

2. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?
(a) Gods and voices.
(b) Stories and whispers.
(c) Tragedies and failings.
(d) Truths and half-truths.

3. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Pagans.
(c) All Christians.
(d) Bereaved women.

4. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Incomprehensibility.
(b) Sense.
(c) Thought.
(d) Deprivation.

5. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world without man.
(c) The world of lachrymose souls.
(d) The world of ineffable sound.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?

2. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?

3. According to the speaker, the brown god's rhythm "was present in the nursery bedroom, / In the rank ailanthus of" the dooryard of what month?

4. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?

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

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