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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. In the first chorus of 'The Rock,' what is said to soar in the summit of Heaven?
(a) The Spirit.
(b) The Falcon.
(c) The Eagle.
(d) The Angel.

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

3. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) The Foreigner.
(b) Israel.
(c) The Servant.
(d) The Infant.

4. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Skeletal jaguars.
(b) Daffodil bulbs.
(c) Eyeballs.
(d) Unfettered souls.

5. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?
(a) St. Nicholas.
(b) St. Lucy.
(c) St. Franics.
(d) St. Claire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shall happen to those who praise the auditor of "A Song for Simeon"?

2. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?

3. Whom does the poet shall "try" man's well-preserved complacency in the third of the "Five Finger Exercises"?

4. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

5. Which of the following phrases is repeated throughout Part II of "The Waste Land", "A Game of Chess"?

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