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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) - Mr. Apollinax | Analysis for Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) - Hysteria.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?
(a) Achilles' heel.
(b) Winged foot.
(c) Petrarchan mind.
(d) Elysian hope.

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

3. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?
(a) A slice of lemon.
(b) A bitten macaroon.
(c) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.
(d) Nothing at all.

4. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?
(a) Motherly.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Slingsby.
(d) Fasinta.

5. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) Germany.
(b) The United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

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

3. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?

4. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?

5. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

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