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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) All Christians.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Pagans.
(d) Bereaved women.

2. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) Their own.
(b) The Director's.
(c) Nobody's.
(d) The petty contractors'.

3. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The still point of the turning world.
(b) The artery of truth.
(c) The bedded axle-tree.
(d) The memory of inveterate scars.

4. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A known unknown.
(b) A deceitful visage.
(c) A whispered scream.
(d) A destructive fire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?

2. 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?

3. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

4. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?

5. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?

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