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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. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Matthew and Waldo.
(b) Alighieri and Spenser.
(c) Alfred and Omar.
(d) Virgil and Homer.

2. 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?
(a) December.
(b) July.
(c) October.
(d) March.

3. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?
(a) Accidental stars.
(b) Fragments of gold.
(c) Iron tables.
(d) Short gasps.

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

5. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?
(a) Shed a tear.
(b) Run back down.
(c) Ring the bell.
(d) Sigh quietly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

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

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

4. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?

5. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?

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