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

2. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The horizon.
(b) The sea.
(c) The river.
(d) The sky.

3. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) There.
(b) Here.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Everywhere.

4. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Grievers.
(b) Friends.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Explorers.

5. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Those who are dead and buried.
(b) The roots of long-established families.
(c) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.
(d) The ancestral tradition of the West.

Short Answer Questions

1. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

2. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?

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

4. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?

5. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?

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