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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. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Zero.

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

3. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The pagan.
(b) The child.
(c) The idiot.
(d) The priest.

4. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) A girl.
(b) His mother.
(c) His wife.
(d) A boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

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

5. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?

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