View a FREE sample

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. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?
(a) The early morning.
(b) Night time.
(c) At birth.
(d) Mating time.

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

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

4. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Rachel nee Rabinovitch.
(c) The waiter who brings in oranges.
(d) The person in the Spanish cape.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

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

3. In what shall the "True Church" of "The Hippopotamus" remained wrapped below?

4. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 239 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample