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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Landscapes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?
(a) Fear and loathing.
(b) Tea and biscuits.
(c) Beer and bread.
(d) Crumpets and scones.

2. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?
(a) Tennyson.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Arnold.
(d) Dilthey.

3. What image is used as a metaphor in the second Landscape?
(a) A marketplace.
(b) A kingdom.
(c) A river.
(d) A field.

4. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?
(a) Views of the Oxford Colleges.
(b) An invitation to the dance.
(c) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
(d) The Grand Chartreuse.

5. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?
(a) Aeolus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Ares.
(d) Poseidon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reader implored not to hope to find behind the white well in the third Landscape?

2. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

3. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?

4. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?

5. In the fragrant brilliance of what does the subject of "Animula" take pleasure?

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