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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. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Dilthey.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Emerson.

2. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Slingsby.
(c) Ellicott.
(d) Sokoski.

3. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?
(a) A twisted face.
(b) A dry exhale.
(c) An aimless smile.
(d) A despondent wail.

4. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?
(a) Donne.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Flowers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?

2. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?

3. Whom does the speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" think is a "strong brown god"?

4. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?

5. What is the reader implored not to hope to find behind the white well in the third Landscape?

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