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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, in "A Song for Simeon", are said to be "blooming in bowls"?
(a) English laurels.
(b) Frankish tulips.
(c) Roman hyacinths.
(d) Israeli violets.

2. In the second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?
(a) The body.
(b) The mind.
(c) The Faith.
(d) The Temple.

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

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

5. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The beginning.
(b) The second coming.
(c) The first man.
(d) The end of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?

2. In the second stanza of "Eyes that last I saw in tears", the speaker says that the eyes he shall not see again are eyes of what?

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

4. What does the hippopotamus do at night?

5. In Part I of "The Waste Land", "The Burial of the Dead," which month is said to be the cruelest?

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