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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. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The child.
(b) The idiot.
(c) The priest.
(d) The pagan.

2. Whom does the poet shall "try" man's well-preserved complacency in the third of the "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) The dark.
(b) The worm.
(c) The light.
(d) The dog.

3. In what shall the "True Church" of "The Hippopotamus" remained wrapped below?
(a) Miasmal mist.
(b) Splendor and glory.
(c) Eternal quagmire.
(d) Virginal robes.

4. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?
(a) The winter sun.
(b) The consolation of Israel.
(c) The death wind.
(d) Glory and derision.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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