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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Four Quartets - Little Gidding.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?
(a) Doris.
(b) The lady of the corridor.
(c) Mrs. Turner.
(d) The epileptic.

2. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Wine.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Beer.

3. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?
(a) Nothing at all.
(b) A slice of lemon.
(c) A bitten macaroon.
(d) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.

4. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?
(a) Fasinta.
(b) Motherly.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Slingsby.

5. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?
(a) Ripe corn.
(b) Golden wheat.
(c) Toy soldiers.
(d) Uncut grass.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?

2. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

3. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

4. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?

5. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?

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