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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 of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The opprobrius invective.
(b) The recession of fecundity.
(c) The promontory knives.
(d) The murmuring shell of time.

2. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Death.
(c) Light.
(d) Movement.

3. What does the speaker, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Music.
(c) Nature.
(d) Crying.

4. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) Time.
(b) The light.
(c) The darkness.
(d) Sanity.

5. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their lives.
(b) Their folly.
(c) Their loves.
(d) Their wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?

2. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?

3. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

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

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