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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. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) The Rialto.
(b) Princess Volupine.
(c) Sir Ferdinand Klein.
(d) Canaletto.

2. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?
(a) Flesh and blood.
(b) Sand.
(c) A rock.
(d) The mud.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?

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

3. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

4. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?

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

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