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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. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) Courage.
(b) The tiger.
(c) De Bailhache.
(d) The old man.

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

3. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?
(a) The hundredth.
(b) The fiftieth.
(c) The ten-thousandth.
(d) The eightieth.

4. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) The anguish of the marrow.
(b) The Russian eye.
(c) The Brazilian jaguar.
(d) The Abstract Entities.

5. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Ares.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Hercules.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

2. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?

3. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?

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

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

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