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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. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) The Rialto.
(b) Sir Ferdinand Klein.
(c) Princess Volupine.
(d) Canaletto.

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

3. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?
(a) Cousin Jones.
(b) Cousin Melville.
(c) Cousin Thomas.
(d) Cousin Harriet.

4. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) His mother.
(b) A boy.
(c) His wife.
(d) A girl.

5. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Eamon Rood.
(b) The woman.
(c) Himself.
(d) Prester John.

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

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

4. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?

5. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

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