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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. Which of the following cities is not named in Part V of "The Waste Land", "What the Thunder Said"?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Athens.

2. The penultimate line in Part IV of "Ash Wednesday" mentions how many whispers from the yew?
(a) A hundred.
(b) An infinity.
(c) One.
(d) A thousand.

3. To whom are the lines of the first of the "Five Finger Exercises" written?
(a) A Persian Cat.
(b) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.
(c) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(d) A Duck in the Park.

4. Whose hands wove the "intolerable shirt of flame" in Part IV of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) Love.
(b) Torment.
(c) Death.
(d) Fire.

5. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?
(a) Truth.
(b) A tidal wave.
(c) A marriage.
(d) A carnival.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fragrant brilliance of what does the subject of "Animula" take pleasure?

2. How many conditions that "often look alike / Yet differ completely" does the speaker discuss in Part III of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?

3. What does the dullard in "Lines for an Old Man" know?

4. Where is the speaker at the end of "Four Quartets: East Coker" according to Part I?

5. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?

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