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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The ancestral tradition of the West.
(b) The roots of long-established families.
(c) Those who are dead and buried.
(d) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.

2. What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Solidify.
(b) Bear fruit.
(c) Calcify.
(d) Become sugar.

3. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?
(a) Antiquity.
(b) The eternal.
(c) Posterity.
(d) Many generations.

4. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) The remembrance of the old.
(b) Men's curiosity.
(c) The man of angst.
(d) The gaze of the young.

5. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) Here.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) There.
(d) Nowhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?

2. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?

3. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?

4. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?

5. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

(see the answer key)

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