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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The sun.
(b) The day.
(c) The night.
(d) The truth.

3. In the litany of "usual / Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press," given in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," communication with which god is listed?
(a) Krishna.
(b) Arjuna.
(c) Mars.
(d) The Triune God.

4. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?
(a) Transient beauty.
(b) Affective aesthesis.
(c) Lucid stillness.
(d) Suggestive permanence.

5. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) Himself.
(b) His love.
(c) The truth.
(d) The world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

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

4. 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?

5. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

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