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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems (1920) - Le Directeur, Melange Adultere de Tout, Lune de Miel | Poems (1920) - The Hippopotamus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?
(a) Four.
(b) Zero.
(c) Nine.
(d) Five.

2. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Modern.
(c) Conventional.
(d) Scandalous.

3. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?
(a) Night time.
(b) The early morning.
(c) Mating time.
(d) At birth.

4. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Ellicott.
(b) Slingsby.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Sokoski.

5. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?
(a) Four in the morning.
(b) Noon.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Three in the afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

2. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

3. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?

4. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?

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

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