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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 event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?
(a) The stamping of a horse.
(b) The tramping of a man's feet.
(c) The rustling of a newspaper.
(d) The lighting of the lamps.

2. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) "The last twist of the knife."
(b) "Regard the moon."
(c) "A madman shakes a dead geranium."
(d) "Prepare for life."

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

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

5. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?
(a) Tepid tea-times.
(b) Frugality and frivolity.
(c) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.
(d) Time's ruins and the seven laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

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

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

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

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

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