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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ariel Poems - The Cultivation of Christmas Trees.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?
(a) The deer's.
(b) The goat's.
(c) The fox's.
(d) The lion's.

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

3. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our metaphysics.
(b) Our souls.
(c) Our hearts.
(d) Our mothers.

4. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?
(a) Death.
(b) Donne.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Life.

5. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?
(a) The torpid.
(b) The jovial.
(c) The rowdy.
(d) The patently commercial.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?

2. What shall happen to those who praise the auditor of "A Song for Simeon"?

3. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?

4. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?

5. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?

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