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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) The wind.
(b) Men's minds.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth and falsity.

2. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Memory.
(b) Time future.
(c) Dust.
(d) The bird.

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

4. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Penance.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Communion.

5. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The sensual.
(b) The shadow.
(c) The soul.
(d) The temporal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

2. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?

3. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?

4. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

5. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?

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