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

2. In the sixth chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that it is hard for those who have never known persecution or a Christian to believe what?
(a) The security of Christianity.
(b) Tales of Christian persecution.
(c) The truth of the Faith.
(d) The defeat of violence.

3. Which of the following cities is not named in Part V of "The Waste Land", "What the Thunder Said"?
(a) Athens.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Jerusalem.

4. Who is said to be unpleasantly met in the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) Mirza Mura Ali Beg.
(b) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(c) Mr. Eliot.
(d) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.

5. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?
(a) At our birth and at our death.
(b) Now and at the hour of our death.
(c) Now and for all eternity.
(d) Now and at the hour of our birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many conditions that "often look alike / Yet differ completely" does the speaker discuss in Part III of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?

2. In the second stanza of Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what world does the speaker say to descend?

3. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?

4. The penultimate line in Part IV of "Ash Wednesday" mentions how many whispers from the yew?

5. Who, in the eighth chorus of 'The Rock,' is said to have spoken of the shame of Jerusalem?

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