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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 object is the speaker of "Marina" considering when he states that the object is "less clear and clearer"?
(a) A painting.
(b) A pulse.
(c) A face.
(d) A voice.

2. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?
(a) The Grand Chartreuse.
(b) Views of the Oxford Colleges.
(c) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
(d) An invitation to the dance.

3. How many male voices speak in the third chorus of 'The Rock'?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Four.

4. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?
(a) The lighting of the lamps.
(b) The rustling of a newspaper.
(c) The stamping of a horse.
(d) The tramping of a man's feet.

5. In the second stanza of Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what world does the speaker say to descend?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world of sense.
(c) The world of fance.
(d) The world of spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?

2. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

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

4. 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?

5. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

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