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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Choruses from 'The Rock'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?
(a) An automobile.
(b) A table.
(c) A chair.
(d) A broadway marquee.

2. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?
(a) The speaker.
(b) An effete boy.
(c) The beloved of the speaker.
(d) An elderly waiter.

3. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Ares.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Zeus.

4. The speaker of "Eyes that last I saw in tears" says that what he sees, but that what he does not see, is his what?
(a) Affliction.
(b) Joy.
(c) Dream.
(d) Terror.

5. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?
(a) The last-remembered Christmas Tree.
(b) The first-remembered Christmas meal.
(c) The first-remembered Christmas Tree.
(d) The first-remembered Christmas present.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whose hand does the simple soul issue in "Animula"?

2. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?

3. What is "more affectionate than hate" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

4. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

5. What does the speaker say is not more irritable than he in "Lines for an Old Man"?

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