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

2. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?
(a) St. Franics.
(b) St. Lucy.
(c) St. Nicholas.
(d) St. Claire.

3. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Eyeballs.
(b) Daffodil bulbs.
(c) Skeletal jaguars.
(d) Unfettered souls.

4. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Our heroism.
(b) Oor impudent crimes.
(c) Our reconsidered passion.
(d) Our virtues.

5. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?
(a) The rat.
(b) The dogs.
(c) The cat.
(d) The parrot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?

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

3. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

4. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?

5. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?

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