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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ash-Wednesday (1930) | Ariel Poems - Journey of the Magi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) The moon.
(b) Prester John.
(c) Eamon Rood.
(d) Madam Humorist.

2. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?
(a) The lover's hair and armfull of flowers.
(b) The soul as bruised and torn as the body.
(c) Troubled midnight and noon's repose.
(d) The dawning and gloaming of the world.

3. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Vast and deep.
(b) Gentile and suffering.
(c) Patient and loving.
(d) Free and living.

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

5. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?
(a) Toy soldiers.
(b) Golden wheat.
(c) Ripe corn.
(d) Uncut grass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?

2. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

3. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?

4. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?

5. In Part I of "The Waste Land", "The Burial of the Dead," which month is said to be the cruelest?

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