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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 compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) The anguish of the marrow.
(b) The Russian eye.
(c) The Brazilian jaguar.
(d) The Abstract Entities.

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

3. What two things are made one in the "crowned knot of fire" discussed at the end of Part V of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) The fire and the rose.
(b) The living and the dead.
(c) Hell and the devil.
(d) The true and the good.

4. The row of family portraits, "dingy busts," in "Difficulties of a Statesman" all look remarkably what?
(a) Jovial.
(b) French.
(c) Roman.
(d) Morose.

5. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?
(a) A tidal wave.
(b) A carnival.
(c) Truth.
(d) A marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?

2. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?

3. What, in "A Song for Simeon", are said to be "blooming in bowls"?

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

5. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?

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