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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. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) The tiger.
(b) The old man.
(c) De Bailhache.
(d) Courage.

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

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

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

5. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Henry Bolingbroke.
(c) Othello.
(d) Antonio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?

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

3. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?

4. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

5. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?

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