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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Landscapes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?
(a) At our birth and at our death.
(b) Now and at the hour of our birth.
(c) Now and at the hour of our death.
(d) Now and for all eternity.

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

3. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?
(a) Doris.
(b) The lady of the corridor.
(c) Mrs. Turner.
(d) The epileptic.

4. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?
(a) The Oxford English Dictionary.
(b) The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
(c) The Grand Piano.
(d) Copleston's History of Philosophy.

5. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Dilthey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?

2. What is the reader implored not to hope to find behind the white well in the third Landscape?

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

4. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?

5. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?

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