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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 says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Books.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Principles.

2. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Uncertainty about.
(b) Assurance of.
(c) Means to.
(d) Freedom from.

3. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Being.
(c) Thought.
(d) Time.

4. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The grizzly bear.
(b) Death.
(c) The earth.
(d) The river.

5. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) Time.
(b) Sanity.
(c) The light.
(d) The darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?

2. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?

3. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

4. The passengers on the train in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" are said to be not escaping from what?

5. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

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