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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A haphazard line.
(b) A formal pattern.
(c) A lazy stroll.
(d) A vertical mien.

3. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?
(a) An open field.
(b) A factory.
(c) A haphazard pile of flats.
(d) A by-pass.

4. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?
(a) Annihilation.
(b) Incarnation.
(c) Annunciation.
(d) Invocation.

5. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?
(a) Apocalypse.
(b) Assumption.
(c) Amelioration.
(d) Annunciation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?

2. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

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

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

5. Which of the following does the speaker NOT say man must think of as forever doing in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

(see the answer key)

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