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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What image is used as a metaphor in the second Landscape?
(a) A kingdom.
(b) A marketplace.
(c) A field.
(d) A river.

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

3. What disordered objects are left in a dusty room in "Animula"?
(a) Threads.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Shillings.
(d) Papers.

4. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?
(a) Tea and biscuits.
(b) Crumpets and scones.
(c) Beer and bread.
(d) Fear and loathing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?

2. To whom does the speaker say Cape Ann, the last Landscape, truly belongs?

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

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

5. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?

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