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

2. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Ares.

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

4. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?
(a) A dry exhale.
(b) A twisted face.
(c) A despondent wail.
(d) An aimless smile.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?

3. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?

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

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

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