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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 flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The daffodils.
(b) The roses.
(c) The tulips.
(d) The daisies.

2. 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 covered up.
(b) They are being devoured.
(c) They are being disintegrated.
(d) They are being rolled away.

3. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The voices of the sea.
(b) The tolling bell.
(c) The seagull's cry.
(d) The intimations of doom.

4. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?
(a) Affective aesthesis.
(b) Lucid stillness.
(c) Suggestive permanence.
(d) Transient beauty.

5. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?
(a) A myth.
(b) A pattern.
(c) An apodictic statement.
(d) An image.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

5. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?

(see the answer key)

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