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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Conversation.
(b) Business letters.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Periodicals.

3. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Silence.
(b) Nature.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Music.

4. The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what?
(a) Homeward swell.
(b) Reprieve from earthly hell.
(c) Perpetual angelus.
(d) Eternal hymn.

5. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) The clematis.
(b) Yew.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?

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

3. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

4. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?

5. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?

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