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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 is not more still than when the speaker of "Lines for an Old Man" smells "the enemy"?
(a) The writhing fool.
(b) The whipping tail.
(c) The palpitations of the heart.
(d) The duck's wobbling head.

2. What does the dullard in "Lines for an Old Man" know?
(a) That he is mad.
(b) That there is no sun.
(c) That the day is done.
(d) That all men must die.

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

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

5. 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?
(a) Terror.
(b) Joy.
(c) Affliction.
(d) Dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "more affectionate than hate" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

2. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

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

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

5. To whom is the praise directed in the tenth chorus of 'The Rock'?

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