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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 animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?
(a) The dogs.
(b) The rat.
(c) The cat.
(d) The parrot.

2. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Daffodil bulbs.
(b) Unfettered souls.
(c) Skeletal jaguars.
(d) Eyeballs.

3. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?
(a) The consolation of Israel.
(b) Glory and derision.
(c) The winter sun.
(d) The death wind.

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

5. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The beginning.
(b) The second coming.
(c) The end of the world.
(d) The first man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, in "A Song for Simeon", are said to be "blooming in bowls"?

3. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

4. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

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

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