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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. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Oor impudent crimes.
(b) Our virtues.
(c) Our reconsidered passion.
(d) Our heroism.

2. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?
(a) The fire of the Lord.
(b) The water of the river.
(c) The Blood of the Lamb.
(d) The first snow of the year.

3. 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 slice of lemon.
(c) A bitten macaroon.
(d) Nothing at all.

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

5. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?
(a) Motherly.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Slingsby.
(d) Fasinta.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

4. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

5. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?

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