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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) Germany.
(b) The United States.
(c) Italy.
(d) Canada.

3. The penultimate line in Part IV of "Ash Wednesday" mentions how many whispers from the yew?
(a) A hundred.
(b) An infinity.
(c) A thousand.
(d) One.

4. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?
(a) Noon.
(b) Three in the afternoon.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Four in the morning.

5. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?
(a) Michaelangelo.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Dido.
(d) Leonardo.

6. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?
(a) A slice of lemon.
(b) A bitten macaroon.
(c) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.
(d) Nothing at all.

7. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?
(a) Aeolus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Ares.
(d) Poseidon.

8. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?
(a) The Polyphiloprogenitive.
(b) The Word.
(c) The Being.
(d) The Light.

9. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?
(a) Glory and derision.
(b) The winter sun.
(c) The consolation of Israel.
(d) The death wind.

10. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", the masters of what sort of schools are considered controversial and polymath?
(a) Popular.
(b) Subtle.
(c) Modern.
(d) Ancient.

11. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?
(a) The man with heavy eyes.
(b) Sweeney.
(c) The person in the Spanish cape.
(d) The silent man in mocha brown.

12. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?
(a) A garden urn.
(b) The pavement of the stair.
(c) The noon's repose.
(d) A vine-covered wall.

13. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?
(a) October.
(b) March.
(c) July.
(d) December.

14. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our souls.
(b) Our mothers.
(c) Our hearts.
(d) Our metaphysics.

15. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?
(a) Stopping the shaking of her breasts.
(b) Constructing a boat from what he finds around him.
(c) Escaping the cavern in which he has been entrapped.
(d) Reassembling the fragments of her teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fragrant brilliance of what does the subject of "Animula" take pleasure?

2. What disordered objects are left in a dusty room in "Animula"?

3. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?

4. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

5. At the end of their journey, at what time did the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" prefer to travel?

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