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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 the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Noon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Four in the morning.
(d) Four in the afternoon.

2. What does the speaker say is not more irritable than he in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A disturbed ant-hill.
(c) A lion.
(d) A mother deprived of her children.

3. 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) Dream.
(b) Affliction.
(c) Joy.
(d) Terror.

4. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?
(a) The ten-thousandth.
(b) The hundredth.
(c) The eightieth.
(d) The fiftieth.

5. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?
(a) Scandalous.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Modern.
(d) Conventional.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?

2. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

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

4. Which of the following cities is not named in Part V of "The Waste Land", "What the Thunder Said"?

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

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