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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?

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

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

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