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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?
(a) Mating time.
(b) At birth.
(c) The early morning.
(d) Night time.

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

3. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Grishkin's.
(b) Katerina's.
(c) Sonya's.
(d) Gushenka's.

4. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?
(a) Ring the bell.
(b) Shed a tear.
(c) Run back down.
(d) Sigh quietly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?

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

3. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?

4. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. For what does Simeon hope in his encounter with the Christ child?

2. Who are the "ladies of the corridor" in "Sweeney Erect"?

3. What characterizes the speech of the stuffed men in "The Hollow Men"?

4. What is the relationship between the speaker and his interlocutor in "Portrait of a Lady"?

5. What evidently characterizes the woman in "Hysteria"?

6. How does Mr. Apollinax contrast with his hosts?

7. What is the meaning of the phrase in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" , "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"?

8. What is the significance of the lion made tame in the final stanza of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

9. What does the "Boston Evening Transcript" seem to symbolize in the poem of the same name?

10. What is the tone of the speaker in "Morning at the Window" and why?

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