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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 of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Vast and deep.
(b) Gentile and suffering.
(c) Patient and loving.
(d) Free and living.

2. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?
(a) Housemaids.
(b) Jewelers.
(c) Chimney sweeps.
(d) Old wives.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

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

4. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?

5. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?

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