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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?
(a) Absolute paternal care.
(b) Freedom from care.
(c) Desire and despair.
(d) Natural old age.

2. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The boar.
(c) The stars.
(d) The still point.

3. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?
(a) Alive.
(b) Understood.
(c) Deception.
(d) Forgotten.

4. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?
(a) Country mirth.
(b) Panicked flight.
(c) Somber rituals.
(d) Solemn jest.

5. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of starving to death.
(b) Of being alone with oneself.
(c) Of having nothing to think about.
(d) Of having no one to talk to.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?

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

4. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

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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