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

2. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Speaking and hearing.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Dead and living.
(d) Reality and appearance.

3. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Friends.
(b) Grievers.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Explorers.

4. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) Time.
(b) The light.
(c) The darkness.
(d) Sanity.

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Reality and truth.
(b) Heaven and damnation.
(c) Freedom and expression.
(d) Sin and sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?

2. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

4. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?

5. In the seventh line of Part II of "East Coker," with what are late roses said to be filled?

(see the answer key)

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