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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 shall happen to those who praise the auditor of "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) They shall be gloried on earth.
(b) They shall suffer on earth.
(c) They shall wither.
(d) They shall be like gods in the eyes of men.

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

3. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?
(a) Frugality and frivolity.
(b) Time's ruins and the seven laws.
(c) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.
(d) Tepid tea-times.

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

5. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) Israel.
(b) The Foreigner.
(c) The Servant.
(d) The Infant.

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?

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

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

4. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?

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

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