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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 compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) The Russian eye.
(b) The Brazilian jaguar.
(c) The anguish of the marrow.
(d) The Abstract Entities.

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

3. What reality does the poem attempt to convey behind the impressive display of the "Triumphal March"?
(a) The frivolity of war.
(b) The fecundity of love.
(c) The inevitability of death.
(d) The temporality of power.

4. Which of the following is used in Part I of "The Hollow Men" as a metaphor for the "dried voices" of the hollow men whispering to one another?
(a) Distant hinges squeaking closed.
(b) Rats' feet over broken glass.
(c) Pages of a book being thumbed in an adjacent room.
(d) Dead leaves rustling in the wind.

5. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) Italy.
(b) The United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

2. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

3. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

4. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?

5. At what door might the speaker of "Eyes that last I saw in tears" see the eyes again?

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