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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?
(a) Action.
(b) Others.
(c) Temporality.
(d) History.

2. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?
(a) The village street.
(b) The gray stones.
(c) The open field.
(d) The deep lane.

3. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The memory of inveterate scars.
(b) The still point of the turning world.
(c) The bedded axle-tree.
(d) The artery of truth.

4. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?
(a) Reason.
(b) Desire.
(c) Christ.
(d) Death.

5. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The form.
(b) The passion.
(c) The emotion.
(d) The sound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?

3. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?

4. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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