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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. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Gushenka's.
(b) Katerina's.
(c) Sonya's.
(d) Grishkin's.

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

3. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Lives.
(c) Pomegranates.
(d) Mangoes.

4. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?
(a) Reassembling the fragments of her teeth.
(b) Stopping the shaking of her breasts.
(c) Constructing a boat from what he finds around him.
(d) Escaping the cavern in which he has been entrapped.

5. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our metaphysics.
(b) Our souls.
(c) Our hearts.
(d) Our mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?

2. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

3. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?

4. What disordered objects are left in a dusty room in "Animula"?

5. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

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