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Four Quartets | Quiz

T. S. Eliot
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Four Quartets | Quiz

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1)

To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world? (from East Coker)

A deceitful visage.
A whispered scream.
A known unknown.
A destructive fire.
2)

What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"? (from Little Gidding)

Fire.
Love.
The dove.
Humanity.
3)

Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"? (from East Coker)

The dark.
The light.
Art.
The civil service.
4)

Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II? (from East Coker)

Their lives.
Their wisdom.
Their loves.
Their folly.
5)

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? (from East Coker)

Principles.
Elders.
Ignorance.
Wisdom.
6)

By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"? (from The Dry Salvages)

Farmers.
City dwellers.
Kings.
All mankind.
7)

What, in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "descending breaks the air"? (from Little Gidding)

The flame.
Time.
The end.
The dove.
8)

History is said, in Part V of "Little Gidding," to be a pattern of what? (from Little Gidding)

Incalculable chunks.
Perceived perceptions.
Timeless moments.
Half-realized realities.
9)

The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what? (from East Coker)

Grievers.
Teachers.
Friends.
Explorers.
10)

In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what? (from East Coker)

Lights.
Stars.
Directors.
Papers.
11)

With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"? (from The Dry Salvages)

Assurance of.
Uncertainty about.
Means to.
Freedom from.
12)

The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what? (from The Dry Salvages)

Anxious worried women.
The roots of the earth.
Time immemorial.
The swell of the sea.
13)

To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"? (from East Coker)

Love and loss.
Death and birth.
Autumn and winter.
Freedom and responsibility.
14)

The interlocutor of Part II of "Little Gidding" states that the "Fullfed beast shall kick " what? (from Little Gidding)

The empty pail.
The societal structure.
The underfed man.
The vile trough.
15)

Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"? (from East Coker)

The wisdom of old men.
The wisdom of God.
The wisdom of death.
The wisdom of humility.
16)

The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what? (from The Dry Salvages)

Perpetual angelus.
Reprieve from earthly hell.
Eternal hymn.
Homeward swell.
17)

The old master whom the speaker encounters states that he is not "eager to rehearse" what in Part II of "Little Gidding"? (from Little Gidding)

His thoughts and theory.
The account of his death.
Their old friendship.
The lines of a poem.
18)

What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"? (from The Dry Salvages)

Vanity.
Truth.
Time.
Patience.
19)

The third part of "Little Gidding" says that Sin is what? (from Little Gidding)

Impressive.
Behovely.
Homely.
Inexpedient.
20)

With whom, according to the last part of "Little Gidding," are "we" born? (from Little Gidding)

Our children.
The dead.
Our parents.
The world.
21)

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

Time.
Truth.
Man.
Love.
22)

What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"? (from The Dry Salvages)

Bear fruit.
Become sugar.
Solidify.
Calcify.
23)

From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come? (from The Dry Salvages)

The waxing storm.
The dwindling sunlight.
The approaching headland.
The receding shoreline.
24)

In the litany of "usual / Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press," given in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," communication with which god is listed? (from The Dry Salvages)

Arjuna.
Krishna.
Mars.
The Triune God.
25)

The speaker says in Part II of "East Coker" that there is "only a limited value / In the knowledge derived from" what? (from East Coker)

Experience.
Teachers.
Principles.
Books.
Copyrights
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