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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The violin.
(b) The cello.
(c) The organ.
(d) The piano.

2. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A known unknown.
(b) A deceitful visage.
(c) A destructive fire.
(d) A whispered scream.

3. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) The darkness.
(b) Sanity.
(c) The light.
(d) Time.

4. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?
(a) Suggestive permanence.
(b) Transient beauty.
(c) Affective aesthesis.
(d) Lucid stillness.

5. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?
(a) Distance oneself from failure.
(b) Renew what has grown stale.
(c) Recover what has been lost.
(d) Revitalize the human race.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?

2. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?

3. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

5. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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