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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 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) Arjuna.
(b) The Triune God.
(c) Krishna.
(d) Mars.

2. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The artery of truth.
(b) The still point of the turning world.
(c) The bedded axle-tree.
(d) The memory of inveterate scars.

3. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Sun.
(b) Venus.
(c) The Moon.
(d) The Stars.

4. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Truth.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Death.
(d) Time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?

2. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?

3. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?

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