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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 is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) In my beginning.
(b) I am here.
(c) In my end.
(d) The dawn wind.

2. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Thought.
(b) Sense.
(c) Faith.
(d) Consciousness.

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) Nature.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Music.
(d) Crying.

4. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Music.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Nature.
(d) Silence.

5. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The fog.
(b) The salt.
(c) The briar rose.
(d) The moonlight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?

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

3. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

4. The speaker asserts in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that there "is no end, but" what?

5. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

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