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

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

3. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?
(a) Noon.
(b) Four in the morning.
(c) Three in the afternoon.
(d) Midnight.

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

5. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?
(a) Shredded.
(b) Dingy.
(c) Rolled.
(d) Pressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?

2. 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?

3. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?

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

5. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?

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