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 does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?
(a) Smile.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Die.
(d) Weep.

2. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?
(a) The rustling of a newspaper.
(b) The lighting of the lamps.
(c) The tramping of a man's feet.
(d) The stamping of a horse.

3. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?
(a) Rolled.
(b) Dingy.
(c) Shredded.
(d) Pressed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?

4. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

5. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?

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