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

2. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) His wife.
(b) A girl.
(c) His mother.
(d) A boy.

3. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Prester John.
(b) Himself.
(c) Eamon Rood.
(d) The woman.

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

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) October.
(c) December.
(d) July.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?

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

3. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

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

5. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?

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