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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. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?
(a) Langour of broken steel.
(b) Clamour of confused wrong.
(c) Anger of ignored cry.
(d) Listlessness of ancient war.

2. What did the wind break when it sprang up in The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) The echoes.
(b) The walls.
(c) The bells.
(d) The curtains.

3. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?
(a) Michaelangelo.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Dido.

4. In the second of the "Five Finger Exercises", what stands in the brown field?
(a) A tree.
(b) A century.
(c) A scarecrow.
(d) A man.

5. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?
(a) The Blood of the Lamb.
(b) The fire of the Lord.
(c) The first snow of the year.
(d) The water of the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

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

3. The speaker of "Ash Wednesday" informs a lady in Part II that what sat under a juniper tree?

4. 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?

5. In the second stanza of Part V of "Four Quartets: East Coker", where is it stated that one starts from?

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