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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. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The pagan.
(b) The idiot.
(c) The child.
(d) The priest.

2. In Part I of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what does the "door we never opened" lead?
(a) A rose-garden.
(b) The past.
(c) A castle of thought.
(d) A new life.

3. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) A girl.
(b) A boy.
(c) His wife.
(d) His mother.

4. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?
(a) Spears of the soulless.
(b) Foreign faces and swords.
(c) Faithless faith-mongers.
(d) Familiar faces turned hostile.

5. To which of the following are the lines of the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises" addressed?
(a) Mirza Murad Ali Beg.
(b) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.
(c) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(d) Mr. Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the characters are women in the fragment of a prologue?

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

3. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?

4. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?

5. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

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