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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. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?
(a) Cousin Jones.
(b) Cousin Melville.
(c) Cousin Harriet.
(d) Cousin Thomas.

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

3. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Ares.
(d) Apollo.

4. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Noon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Four in the morning.
(d) Four in the afternoon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?

4. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?

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

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