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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 speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Pagans.
(b) Bereaved women.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) All Christians.

2. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The cello.
(b) The organ.
(c) The violin.
(d) The piano.

3. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The intimations of doom.
(b) The voices of the sea.
(c) The seagull's cry.
(d) The tolling bell.

4. What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Become sugar.
(b) Bear fruit.
(c) Solidify.
(d) Calcify.

5. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Dead and living.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Reality and appearance.
(d) Speaking and hearing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?

4. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?

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