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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) In my beginning.
(b) The dawn wind.
(c) In my end.
(d) I am here.

3. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you are.
(b) Where you will be.
(c) Where you have been.
(d) Where you are not.

4. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of having no one to talk to.
(b) Of having nothing to think about.
(c) Of being alone with oneself.
(d) Of starving to death.

5. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Dung.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Old timber" goes to what, in Part I of "East Coker"?

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

3. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

4. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?

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

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