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

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

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

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

5. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Gushenka's.
(b) Katerina's.
(c) Grishkin's.
(d) Sonya's.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?

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

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