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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. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?
(a) An effete boy.
(b) The beloved of the speaker.
(c) The speaker.
(d) An elderly waiter.

2. What does the hippopotamus do at night?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Mate.
(d) Play.

3. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Vast and deep.
(b) Patient and loving.
(c) Gentile and suffering.
(d) Free and living.

4. 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) Time's ruins and the seven laws.
(d) Frugality and frivolity.

5. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?
(a) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.
(b) A bitten macaroon.
(c) A slice of lemon.
(d) Nothing at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?

2. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

3. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?

4. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?

5. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

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