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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) A field-mouse.
(b) A silent motto.
(c) Disconsolate eyes.
(d) Luminescent thread.

2. 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?
(a) Significant soil.
(b) Human fecundity.
(c) Congenial thought.
(d) Earthly soul.

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

4. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The shrubbery.
(b) Under the earth.
(c) The forest.
(d) Outside the garden.

5. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Factories.
(b) New fires.
(c) New buildings.
(d) Eternal Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

2. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?

4. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

5. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?

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