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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dry Salvages.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The dance.
(d) The boar.

2. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Time.
(b) Death.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Truth.

3. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Moon.
(b) The Sun.
(c) Venus.
(d) The Stars.

4. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?
(a) Panicked flight.
(b) Country mirth.
(c) Somber rituals.
(d) Solemn jest.

5. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Frivolity.
(c) Appetency.
(d) Obstinacy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?

3. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

4. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

5. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

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