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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 does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?
(a) Smile.
(b) Weep.
(c) Die.
(d) Laugh.

2. Whom does the speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" think is a "strong brown god"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The river.
(c) The earth.
(d) The Boston fog.

3. In the second stanza of Part V of "Four Quartets: East Coker", where is it stated that one starts from?
(a) Home.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) Birth.

4. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?
(a) Ancient cupboards.
(b) Oaken tables.
(c) Dining halls.
(d) Basement kitchens.

5. How many conditions that "often look alike / Yet differ completely" does the speaker discuss in Part III of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Nine.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

2. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?

3. In the second of the "Five Finger Exercises", what stands in the brown field?

4. What does the hippopotamus do at night?

5. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

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