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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Sin and sight.
(b) Reality and truth.
(c) Heaven and damnation.
(d) Freedom and expression.

2. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) The Director's.
(b) Their own.
(c) Nobody's.
(d) The petty contractors'.

3. 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) Siva.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Arjuna.
(d) Christ.

4. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) His wounds.
(b) His eyes.
(c) The steel.
(d) The cook.

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

2. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

3. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?

4. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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

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