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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems (1920) - Gerontion | Poems (1920) - Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?
(a) The speaker.
(b) An effete boy.
(c) The beloved of the speaker.
(d) An elderly waiter.

2. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?
(a) Oaken tables.
(b) Dining halls.
(c) Basement kitchens.
(d) Ancient cupboards.

3. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Patient and loving.
(b) Free and living.
(c) Gentile and suffering.
(d) Vast and deep.

4. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) "The last twist of the knife."
(b) "Regard the moon."
(c) "A madman shakes a dead geranium."
(d) "Prepare for life."

5. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Beer.
(b) Wine.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Vomit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?

3. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?

4. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?

5. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?

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