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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. How many men appear in the fragment of an Agon in the "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?
(a) Six.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Ares.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Hercules.

3. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?
(a) A garden urn.
(b) A vine-covered wall.
(c) The noon's repose.
(d) The pavement of the stair.

4. What was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?
(a) The length of their journey.
(b) The birth of Christ.
(c) The return journey.
(d) Taking up their old dispensation.

5. In the second of the "Five Finger Exercises", what stands in the brown field?
(a) A man.
(b) A tree.
(c) A scarecrow.
(d) A century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

2. The row of family portraits, "dingy busts," in "Difficulties of a Statesman" all look remarkably what?

3. What in Part V of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" is said to be "itself unmoving, / Only the cause and end of movement"?

4. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?

5. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?

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