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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems (1920) - Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service | Poems (1920) - Sweeney Among the Nightingales.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Oor impudent crimes.
(b) Our virtues.
(c) Our reconsidered passion.
(d) Our heroism.

2. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?
(a) Tea and biscuits.
(b) Beer and bread.
(c) Fear and loathing.
(d) Crumpets and scones.

3. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?
(a) The water of the river.
(b) The Blood of the Lamb.
(c) The fire of the Lord.
(d) The first snow of the year.

4. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?
(a) The man with heavy eyes.
(b) The person in the Spanish cape.
(c) The silent man in mocha brown.
(d) Sweeney.

5. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Wine.
(b) Vomit.
(c) Beer.
(d) Smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

2. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?

3. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?

4. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?

5. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

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