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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. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Anguish.
(d) Sense.

2. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?
(a) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.
(b) Time's ruins and the seven laws.
(c) Frugality and frivolity.
(d) Tepid tea-times.

3. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) The Servant.
(b) The Infant.
(c) The Foreigner.
(d) Israel.

4. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Skeletal jaguars.
(b) Eyeballs.
(c) Daffodil bulbs.
(d) Unfettered souls.

5. What, in "A Song for Simeon", are said to be "blooming in bowls"?
(a) Frankish tulips.
(b) English laurels.
(c) Israeli violets.
(d) Roman hyacinths.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?

2. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

3. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

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

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

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