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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 do people enjoy about marches like the one described in the "Triumphal March"?
(a) The loss of human life.
(b) The spectacle of power.
(c) The promise of a better future.
(d) The acquisition of goods.

2. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Unfettered souls.
(b) Skeletal jaguars.
(c) Daffodil bulbs.
(d) Eyeballs.

3. In the second of the "Five Finger Exercises", what stands in the brown field?
(a) A scarecrow.
(b) A century.
(c) A man.
(d) A tree.

4. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?
(a) A broadway marquee.
(b) An automobile.
(c) A table.
(d) A chair.

5. To which of the following are the lines of the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises" addressed?
(a) Mirza Murad Ali Beg.
(b) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.
(c) Mr. Eliot.
(d) A Yorkshire Terrier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following phrases is repeated throughout Part II of "The Waste Land", "A Game of Chess"?

2. To what do the "lips that would kiss" in Part III of "The Hollow Men" form prayers?

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

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

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

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