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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. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?
(a) Conventional.
(b) Scandalous.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Modern.

2. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Prester John.
(b) Himself.
(c) The woman.
(d) Eamon Rood.

3. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Slingsby.
(b) Sokoski.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Ellicott.

4. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) De Bailhache.
(b) Courage.
(c) The old man.
(d) The tiger.

5. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?
(a) A garden urn.
(b) The noon's repose.
(c) A vine-covered wall.
(d) The pavement of the stair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?

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

3. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?

4. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?

5. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?

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