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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ariel Poems - The Cultivation of Christmas Trees.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?
(a) Faith.
(b) Sense.
(c) Anguish.
(d) Love.

2. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?
(a) The first-remembered Christmas meal.
(b) The first-remembered Christmas Tree.
(c) The last-remembered Christmas Tree.
(d) The first-remembered Christmas present.

3. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?
(a) Familiar faces turned hostile.
(b) Spears of the soulless.
(c) Foreign faces and swords.
(d) Faithless faith-mongers.

4. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Ares.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Hercules.

5. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?
(a) Fasinta.
(b) Slingsby.
(c) Motherly.
(d) Dresden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

2. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?

3. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?

4. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

5. What, in "A Song for Simeon", are said to be "blooming in bowls"?

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