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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. What did the wind break when it sprang up in The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) The echoes.
(b) The bells.
(c) The curtains.
(d) The walls.

2. To what do the "lips that would kiss" in Part III of "The Hollow Men" form prayers?
(a) Final answers.
(b) Deaf gods.
(c) Ancient rites.
(d) Broken stone.

3. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?
(a) Troubled midnight and noon's repose.
(b) The lover's hair and armfull of flowers.
(c) The soul as bruised and torn as the body.
(d) The dawning and gloaming of the world.

4. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?
(a) Milesian.
(b) Umbrian.
(c) Ambrosian.
(d) Elysian.

5. In the second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?
(a) The body.
(b) The Faith.
(c) The Temple.
(d) The mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?

2. Across what river do the Tartar horsemen shake their spears in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

3. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

4. Whose hands wove the "intolerable shirt of flame" in Part IV of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?

5. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?

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