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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?
(a) A haphazard pile of flats.
(b) An open field.
(c) A by-pass.
(d) A factory.

2. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Bereaved women.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Pagans.
(d) All Christians.

3. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Incomprehensibility.
(b) Deprivation.
(c) Thought.
(d) Sense.

4. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Light.
(b) Death.
(c) Movement.
(d) Truth.

5. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A frivolous thought.
(b) A passive potency.
(c) A perpetual possibility.
(d) An unrealized actuality.

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, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?

3. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

4. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?

5. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?

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