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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Choruses from 'The Rock'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following phrases is repeated throughout Part II of "The Waste Land", "A Game of Chess"?
(a) "Shantih, Shantih, Shantih."
(b) "Sweet Thames, run softly."
(c) "I can't help it."
(d) "Hurry up please it's time."

2. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?
(a) Now and at the hour of our birth.
(b) Now and at the hour of our death.
(c) Now and for all eternity.
(d) At our birth and at our death.

3. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Four in the afternoon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Noon.
(d) Four in the morning.

4. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

5. Whom does the poet shall "try" man's well-preserved complacency in the third of the "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) The light.
(b) The worm.
(c) The dog.
(d) The dark.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The speaker of "Eyes that last I saw in tears" says that what he sees, but that what he does not see, is his what?

4. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?

5. In the second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?

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