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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 adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) Bloody.
(b) New.
(c) Good.
(d) First.

2. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of having no one to talk to.
(b) Of starving to death.
(c) Of having nothing to think about.
(d) Of being alone with oneself.

3. 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?
(a) Topological reality.
(b) Chronological order.
(c) Daily ritual.
(d) Mere sequence.

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

5. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Appetency.
(b) Fidelity.
(c) Obstinacy.
(d) Frivolity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?

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

3. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?

4. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?

5. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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