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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 second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?
(a) The body.
(b) The Faith.
(c) The Temple.
(d) The mind.

2. What, according to the end of Part V of "The Hollow Men", is the way the world ends?
(a) With a bang.
(b) With a whimper.
(c) Under the shadow.
(d) In dazzling silence.

3. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?
(a) Ripe corn.
(b) Golden wheat.
(c) Toy soldiers.
(d) Uncut grass.

4. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Across what river does the "camp fire shake with alien spears" in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

2. In the first stanza of Part IV of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", what do time and the bell do?

3. The row of family portraits, "dingy busts," in "Difficulties of a Statesman" all look remarkably what?

4. What is the name of the man who phones Doris in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?

5. 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?

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