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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 poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?
(a) Smile.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Weep.
(d) Die.

2. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?
(a) Oaken tables.
(b) Dining halls.
(c) Ancient cupboards.
(d) Basement kitchens.

3. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

4. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?
(a) Zero.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Nine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

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

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

4. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

5. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?

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