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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. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?
(a) October.
(b) July.
(c) December.
(d) March.

2. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?
(a) Raphael.
(b) Michaelangelo.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Dido.

3. What does the speaker say is not more irritable than he in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A mother deprived of her children.
(c) A disturbed ant-hill.
(d) A lion.

4. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Beer.
(c) Wine.
(d) Smoke.

5. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?
(a) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.
(b) A bitten macaroon.
(c) A slice of lemon.
(d) Nothing at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?

2. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

3. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?

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

5. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

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