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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. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?
(a) The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
(b) Copleston's History of Philosophy.
(c) The Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) The Grand Piano.

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

3. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?
(a) Frugality and frivolity.
(b) Tepid tea-times.
(c) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.
(d) Time's ruins and the seven laws.

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

5. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?
(a) The jovial.
(b) The patently commercial.
(c) The torpid.
(d) The rowdy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?

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

4. The juice of what does Mr. Hodgson press on "his palate fine" in "Five Finger Exercises"?

5. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

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