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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The summer leaf.
(b) The moving tree.
(c) The turning world.
(d) The stars.

2. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world of ineffable sound.
(c) The world of lachrymose souls.
(d) The world without man.

3. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Disaffection.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Stillness.
(d) Time future.

4. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?
(a) The sudden fury.
(b) The halcyon day.
(c) The ragged rock.
(d) Time.

5. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The emotion.
(b) The form.
(c) The passion.
(d) The sound.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?

2. 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?

3. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

4. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

5. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?

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