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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 is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of sense.
(b) The world of spirit.
(c) The world of fancy.
(d) The world of solitude.

2. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Elders.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Principles.

3. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?
(a) Christ's.
(b) The Lady's.
(c) Krishna's.
(d) Mars'.

4. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?
(a) Human fecundity.
(b) Significant soil.
(c) Earthly soul.
(d) Congenial thought.

5. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?
(a) The receding shoreline.
(b) The approaching headland.
(c) The waxing storm.
(d) The dwindling sunlight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?

2. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?

3. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?

4. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

5. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?

(see the answer key)

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