View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Love.
(b) Desire.
(c) Death.
(d) Time.

2. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Where art thou?
(b) You are dead.
(c) Let us go.
(d) Be still.

3. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) The cloud.
(b) The lotos.
(c) Children.
(d) The bird.

4. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The briar rose.
(b) The moonlight.
(c) The fog.
(d) The salt.

5. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?
(a) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(b) Endless smoke of briars.
(c) Breath torrid and unworthy.
(d) Icy winds of loss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?

2. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?

3. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?

5. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 275 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample