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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 shall wash the hippopotamus clean?
(a) The fire of the Lord.
(b) The first snow of the year.
(c) The water of the river.
(d) The Blood of the Lamb.

2. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?
(a) Tables and chairs.
(b) Hands and feet.
(c) Kisses and toys.
(d) Forks and knives.

3. What is the name of the man who phones Doris in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?
(a) Ardon.
(b) Foster.
(c) Pereira.
(d) Willthon.

4. How many characters are in the fragment of a prologue?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

5. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) His mother.
(b) A boy.
(c) A girl.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer 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?

2. What disordered objects are left in a dusty room in "Animula"?

3. At the end of their journey, at what time did the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" prefer to travel?

4. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?

5. What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

(see the answer key)

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