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

2. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The earth.
(b) The hill.
(c) The sky.
(d) The sea.

3. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?
(a) The future.
(b) The sight.
(c) The pattern.
(d) The past.

4. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Penance.
(b) Communion.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Marriage.

5. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Men.
(b) Truths.
(c) Words.
(d) Societies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

4. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?

5. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

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