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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 asserts in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that there "is no end, but" what?
(a) A renewal.
(b) A cycle.
(c) Addition.
(d) Oblivion.

2. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Arjuna.
(b) Christ.
(c) Siva.
(d) Artemis.

3. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The intimations of doom.
(b) The seagull's cry.
(c) The voices of the sea.
(d) The tolling bell.

4. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The mystic.
(b) The saint.
(c) The philosopher.
(d) The common man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?

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

3. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?

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

5. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?

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