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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines for an Old Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?
(a) Tables and chairs.
(b) Forks and knives.
(c) Kisses and toys.
(d) Hands and feet.

2. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?
(a) The hundredth.
(b) The fiftieth.
(c) The eightieth.
(d) The ten-thousandth.

3. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) The tiger.
(b) De Bailhache.
(c) The old man.
(d) Courage.

4. What is the name of the man who phones Doris in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?
(a) Pereira.
(b) Foster.
(c) Ardon.
(d) Willthon.

5. The juice of what does Mr. Hodgson press on "his palate fine" in "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) Fresh cantaloupe.
(b) Gooseberry tart.
(c) Fresh young geese.
(d) Strawberries.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?

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

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

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