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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 goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Whispered prayers.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Lies.
(d) Wind.

2. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Forty.

3. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?
(a) They are being devoured.
(b) They are being disintegrated.
(c) They are being rolled away.
(d) They are being covered up.

4. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their folly.
(b) Their wisdom.
(c) Their lives.
(d) Their loves.

5. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?
(a) The roots of the earth.
(b) Anxious worried women.
(c) The swell of the sea.
(d) Time immemorial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

2. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?

3. 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?

4. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?

(see the answer key)

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