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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. How many of the characters are women in the fragment of a prologue?
(a) Four.
(b) Nine.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

2. Who, in the eighth chorus of 'The Rock,' is said to have spoken of the shame of Jerusalem?
(a) Melchisidek.
(b) Christ.
(c) Peter the Hermit.
(d) John the Baptist.

3. To whom are the lines of the first of the "Five Finger Exercises" written?
(a) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.
(b) A Persian Cat.
(c) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(d) A Duck in the Park.

4. Between what two things were the bells swinging in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Truth and falsity.
(b) Life and death.
(c) Time and eternity.
(d) Love and hate.

5. Across what river does the "camp fire shake with alien spears" in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) The blackened river.
(b) Death's other river.
(c) Life's faded river.
(d) The crystalline river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object is the speaker of "Marina" considering when he states that the object is "less clear and clearer"?

2. In the second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?

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

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

5. The speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" wonders if whom meant that "the future is a faded song" in Part III?

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