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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, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?
(a) Jove.
(b) Christ.
(c) Krishna.
(d) Elijah.

2. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?
(a) A broad perspective.
(b) A skeptical eye.
(c) An equal mind.
(d) A Christian mind.

3. According to the speaker, the brown god's rhythm "was present in the nursery bedroom, / In the rank ailanthus of" the dooryard of what month?
(a) April.
(b) July.
(c) September.
(d) March.

4. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Implicit.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Explicit.
(d) Spiritually imbued.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

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 must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?

4. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?

(see the answer key)

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