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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?
(a) A tidal wave.
(b) A marriage.
(c) Truth.
(d) A carnival.

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

3. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?
(a) Tables and chairs.
(b) Hands and feet.
(c) Kisses and toys.
(d) Forks and knives.

4. What is the reader implored not to hope to find behind the white well in the third Landscape?
(a) Memories of pride.
(b) The broken branch.
(c) Broken steel.
(d) The white hart.

5. Who shall be the speaker's bride in A Cooking Egg?
(a) Madame Blavatsky.
(b) Beatrice Valanche.
(c) Pipit.
(d) Lucretia Borgia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What image is used as a metaphor in the second Landscape?

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

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

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

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