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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. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?
(a) The mud.
(b) Flesh and blood.
(c) A rock.
(d) Sand.

2. 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) Love.
(c) Derision.
(d) Contempt.

3. Where does the "golden vision" reappear in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) Death's dream kingdom.
(b) The wold.
(c) Under the red rock.
(d) Death's other kingdom.

4. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?
(a) Chimney sweeps.
(b) Housemaids.
(c) Old wives.
(d) Jewelers.

5. In Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding", the death of hope and despair is the death of what?
(a) Air.
(b) Fire.
(c) Earth.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of game are the women in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" playing?

2. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?

3. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?

4. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?

5. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?

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