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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 the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?
(a) Fond.
(b) Forward.
(c) Fruitful.
(d) Future.

2. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) Men's curiosity.
(b) The remembrance of the old.
(c) The man of angst.
(d) The gaze of the young.

3. In the litany of "usual / Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press," given in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," communication with which god is listed?
(a) Krishna.
(b) Mars.
(c) Arjuna.
(d) The Triune God.

4. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) Time future.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The memory.
(d) The bowl of rose-leaves.

5. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Beginning.
(b) Deception.
(c) End.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

2. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?

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

4. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

5. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?

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