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

2. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?
(a) A rock.
(b) The mud.
(c) Sand.
(d) Flesh and blood.

3. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Alighieri and Spenser.
(b) Matthew and Waldo.
(c) Virgil and Homer.
(d) Alfred and Omar.

4. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Sokoski.
(b) Slingsby.
(c) Ellicott.
(d) Eliot.

5. Which of the following phrases is repeated throughout Part II of "The Waste Land", "A Game of Chess"?
(a) "Sweet Thames, run softly."
(b) "I can't help it."
(c) "Shantih, Shantih, Shantih."
(d) "Hurry up please it's time."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?

2. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?

3. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?

4. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?

5. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

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