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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) - Mr. Apollinax | Analysis for Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) - Hysteria.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?
(a) Zero.
(b) Nine.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

2. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?
(a) Reassembling the fragments of her teeth.
(b) Escaping the cavern in which he has been entrapped.
(c) Stopping the shaking of her breasts.
(d) Constructing a boat from what he finds around him.

3. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) The United States.
(d) Canada.

4. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Sokoski.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Slingsby.
(d) Ellicott.

5. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Fasinta.
(c) Slingsby.
(d) Motherly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?

2. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?

3. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?

4. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?

5. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?

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