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

2. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Our heroism.
(b) Our virtues.
(c) Oor impudent crimes.
(d) Our reconsidered passion.

3. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?
(a) The rat.
(b) The dogs.
(c) The cat.
(d) The parrot.

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

5. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?
(a) Achilles' heel.
(b) Petrarchan mind.
(c) Winged foot.
(d) Elysian hope.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

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

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

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

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