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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 does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The river.
(c) The sky.
(d) The horizon.

2. 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) Anxious worried women.
(c) The roots of the earth.
(d) Time immemorial.

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

4. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Sin and sight.
(b) Freedom and expression.
(c) Heaven and damnation.
(d) Reality and truth.

5. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?
(a) Love.
(b) Time.
(c) Truth.
(d) Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

2. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

3. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

4. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?

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

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