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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 Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Aeolus.
(d) Ares.

2. What does the dullard in "Lines for an Old Man" know?
(a) That there is no sun.
(b) That he is mad.
(c) That the day is done.
(d) That all men must die.

3. If the eyes spoken of in "Eyes that last I saw in tears" outlast the tears, in what will they hold the speaker?
(a) Definition.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Love.
(d) Derision.

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

5. Which of the following is used in Part I of "The Hollow Men" as a metaphor for the "dried voices" of the hollow men whispering to one another?
(a) Distant hinges squeaking closed.
(b) Rats' feet over broken glass.
(c) Pages of a book being thumbed in an adjacent room.
(d) Dead leaves rustling in the wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?

2. In Part III of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages", the speaker wishes the voyagers not "fare well," but what?

3. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?

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

5. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?

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