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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 word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?
(a) Modern.
(b) Scandalous.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Conventional.

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

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

4. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) The old man.
(b) The tiger.
(c) Courage.
(d) De Bailhache.

5. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?
(a) The rowdy.
(b) The torpid.
(c) The jovial.
(d) The patently commercial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?

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

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

4. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?

5. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?

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