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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 does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) His wounds.
(b) The steel.
(c) The cook.
(d) His eyes.

2. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?
(a) Calm.
(b) Eternal respite.
(c) Wisdom of age.
(d) Autumnal serenity.

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?
(a) March.
(b) April.
(c) September.
(d) July.

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?
(a) Congenial thought.
(b) Human fecundity.
(c) Significant soil.
(d) Earthly soul.

5. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?
(a) The Lady's.
(b) Christ's.
(c) Mars'.
(d) Krishna's.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?

2. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. The speaker says that "each venture / Is a new" what in Part V of "East Coker"?

5. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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