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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 is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Noon.
(b) Four in the afternoon.
(c) Four in the morning.
(d) Midnight.

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

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

4. 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) Sigh quietly.
(d) Ring the bell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?

2. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?

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

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

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

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