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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems (1920) - Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service | Poems (1920) - Sweeney Among the Nightingales.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?
(a) Three in the afternoon.
(b) Noon.
(c) Four in the morning.
(d) Midnight.

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

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

4. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Eyeballs.
(b) Skeletal jaguars.
(c) Daffodil bulbs.
(d) Unfettered souls.

5. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?

2. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

3. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", the masters of what sort of schools are considered controversial and polymath?

4. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?

5. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?

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