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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 "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?
(a) Accidental stars.
(b) Short gasps.
(c) Fragments of gold.
(d) Iron tables.

2. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?
(a) Beer and bread.
(b) Crumpets and scones.
(c) Tea and biscuits.
(d) Fear and loathing.

3. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The second coming.
(b) The end of the world.
(c) The beginning.
(d) The first man.

4. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Sonya's.
(b) Katerina's.
(c) Gushenka's.
(d) Grishkin's.

5. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Gentile and suffering.
(b) Free and living.
(c) Vast and deep.
(d) Patient and loving.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?

2. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

3. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?

4. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?

5. To which of the following are the lines of the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises" addressed?

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