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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 does the hippopotamus do at night?
(a) Mate.
(b) Play.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Hunt.

2. At the end of their journey, at what time did the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" prefer to travel?
(a) Evening.
(b) Afternoon.
(c) Night.
(d) Morning.

3. To whom is the praise directed in the tenth chorus of 'The Rock'?
(a) The Holy Theotokos.
(b) God the Father.
(c) The Light Invisible.
(d) God the Holy Spirit.

4. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Sunlight.
(d) Love.

5. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Matthew and Waldo.
(b) Alighieri and Spenser.
(c) Virgil and Homer.
(d) Alfred and Omar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

3. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

4. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?

5. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?

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