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

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

3. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?
(a) Constructing a boat from what he finds around him.
(b) Stopping the shaking of her breasts.
(c) Escaping the cavern in which he has been entrapped.
(d) Reassembling the fragments of her teeth.

4. 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.

5. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Beer.
(c) Wine.
(d) Vomit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?

2. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?

3. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?

4. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?

5. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?

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