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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 Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?
(a) Antonio.
(b) Othello.
(c) Henry Bolingbroke.
(d) Hamlet.

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

3. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?
(a) Cousin Thomas.
(b) Cousin Jones.
(c) Cousin Melville.
(d) Cousin Harriet.

4. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Our heroism.
(b) Oor impudent crimes.
(c) Our virtues.
(d) Our reconsidered passion.

5. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?
(a) Troubled midnight and noon's repose.
(b) The dawning and gloaming of the world.
(c) The lover's hair and armfull of flowers.
(d) The soul as bruised and torn as the body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

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

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

4. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

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

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