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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. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Virgil and Homer.
(b) Matthew and Waldo.
(c) Alighieri and Spenser.
(d) Alfred and Omar.

2. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?
(a) The fox's.
(b) The deer's.
(c) The goat's.
(d) The lion's.

3. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Princess Volupine.
(b) The Rialto.
(c) Canaletto.
(d) Sir Ferdinand Klein.

4. 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.

5. What, in "A Song for Simeon", are said to be "blooming in bowls"?
(a) Roman hyacinths.
(b) Israeli violets.
(c) English laurels.
(d) Frankish tulips.

Short Answer Questions

1. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?

2. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

3. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?

4. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?

5. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

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