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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?
(a) The swell of the sea.
(b) Time immemorial.
(c) The roots of the earth.
(d) Anxious worried women.

2. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The night.
(b) The day.
(c) The truth.
(d) The sun.

3. 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?
(a) End.
(b) Destination.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Sense.

4. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Assurance of.
(b) Freedom from.
(c) Uncertainty about.
(d) Means to.

5. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?
(a) Action.
(b) History.
(c) Temporality.
(d) Others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?

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

3. By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?

5. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

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