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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. 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) October.
(b) March.
(c) December.
(d) July.

2. 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) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) A bitten macaroon.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?

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

3. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?

4. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

5. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?

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