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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems (1920) - Gerontion | Poems (1920) - Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

4. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?
(a) An aimless smile.
(b) A twisted face.
(c) A despondent wail.
(d) A dry exhale.

5. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?
(a) December.
(b) October.
(c) July.
(d) March.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?

2. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

3. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?

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

5. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

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