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1. From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
"Let us go then you and I
When the evening is spread out across the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;"
What is the next line?
2. From "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service":
"Polyphiloprogenitive
The sapient sutlers of the Lord
Drift across the window-panes."
What is the next line?
3. From "Ash Wednesday"
"Redeem the time, redeem the dream
The token of the word unheard, unspoken
Till the wind shake a thousand whispers from the yew"
What is the next line?
4. From "Sweeney Among the Nightingales":
"The host with someone indistinct
Converses at the door apart,
The nightingales are singing near"
What is the next line?
5. From "The Hollow Men":
"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends"
What is the next line? Hint: No hint for this one because it's one of his more famous passages.
6. From "The Waste Land":
"Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
This time, choose the first line of the stanza. This is another fairly famous line, so I won't give a hint.
7. From "The Waste Land":
"Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of the gulls, and the deep sea swell"
What is the next line? Hint: don't forget "The Waste Land" is made up of several parts. The answer isn't found in Part I.
8. Let's change things up a little. Whose murder is central to T.S. Eliot's play "Murder in the Cathedral"?
9. From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
"Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?...
I should have been a pair of ragged claws"
What is the next line in the stanza?
10. This question is a little different than the others. In the poem "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" there is a sentence written in Greek. What is the correct English translation?
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