Collected Poems, 1909-1962 Quiz

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What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"? (from Poems (1920) - Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service)

Plague and the Crow.

The Raven and Pestilence.

Death and the Raven.

Orion and the Dog.

Across what river do the Tartar horsemen shake their spears in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"? (from Minor Poems- The wind sprang up at four o'clock)

The crystalline river.

Death's other river.

Life's faded river.

The blackened river.

Which of the following is used in Part I of "The Hollow Men" as a metaphor for the "dried voices" of the hollow men whispering to one another? (from The Waste Land (1922))

Pages of a book being thumbed in an adjacent room.

Rats' feet over broken glass.

Distant hinges squeaking closed.

Dead leaves rustling in the wind.

What in Part V of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" is said to be "itself unmoving, / Only the cause and end of movement"? (from Four Quartets - Burnt Norton)

Death.

Time.

Love.

Desire.

The speaker of "Ash Wednesday" informs a lady in Part II that what sat under a juniper tree? (from Ash-Wednesday (1930))

A hungry dog.

A young maid.

Six staring skulls.

Three white leopards.