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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 says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?
(a) Ripe corn.
(b) Toy soldiers.
(c) Golden wheat.
(d) Uncut grass.

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

3. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?
(a) Achilles' heel.
(b) Winged foot.
(c) Elysian hope.
(d) Petrarchan mind.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

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

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

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