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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. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?
(a) The eightieth.
(b) The fiftieth.
(c) The ten-thousandth.
(d) The hundredth.

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

3. The enemy in "Lines for an Old Man" is said to be dangling from what?
(a) The vicious tree.
(b) The fruited tree.
(c) The friendly tree.
(d) The hanging tree.

4. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?
(a) Kisses and toys.
(b) Forks and knives.
(c) Tables and chairs.
(d) Hands and feet.

5. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?
(a) Fragments of gold.
(b) Accidental stars.
(c) Iron tables.
(d) Short gasps.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The row of family portraits, "dingy busts," in "Difficulties of a Statesman" all look remarkably what?

3. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

4. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?

5. To what do the "lips that would kiss" in Part III of "The Hollow Men" form prayers?

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