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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?
(a) The gray stones.
(b) The village street.
(c) The deep lane.
(d) The open field.

2. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) Men's curiosity.
(b) The gaze of the young.
(c) The remembrance of the old.
(d) The man of angst.

3. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) The cook.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His wounds.
(d) The steel.

4. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Men.
(b) Truths.
(c) Societies.
(d) Words.

5. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A perpetual possibility.
(b) A passive potency.
(c) A frivolous thought.
(d) An unrealized actuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?

2. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?

3. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

4. In the litany of "usual / Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press," given in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," communication with which god is listed?

5. 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?

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