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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. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?
(a) Copleston's History of Philosophy.
(b) The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
(c) The Grand Piano.
(d) The Oxford English Dictionary.

2. To whom does the speaker say Cape Ann, the last Landscape, truly belongs?
(a) The sharks.
(b) The sailors.
(c) The bullbat.
(d) The sea gulls.

3. Who shall be the speaker's bride in A Cooking Egg?
(a) Pipit.
(b) Beatrice Valanche.
(c) Madame Blavatsky.
(d) Lucretia Borgia.

4. Between what two things are "Whispers and small laughter" found in "Marina"?
(a) Water and ice.
(b) Fire and heat.
(c) Memories and future joys.
(d) Leaves and hurrying feet.

5. Between what two things were the bells swinging in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Life and death.
(b) Time and eternity.
(c) Truth and falsity.
(d) Love and hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

2. With what did the old master met in Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding" leave the poem's speaker?

3. At the end of their journey, at what time did the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" prefer to travel?

4. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?

5. The penultimate line in Part IV of "Ash Wednesday" mentions how many whispers from the yew?

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