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

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

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

4. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) Donne.
(d) Flowers.

5. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Four in the afternoon.
(b) Noon.
(c) Four in the morning.
(d) Midnight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?

2. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?

3. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

4. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?

5. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

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