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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. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our souls.
(b) Our metaphysics.
(c) Our mothers.
(d) Our hearts.

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

3. 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?
(a) October.
(b) July.
(c) December.
(d) March.

4. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Prester John.
(b) Eamon Rood.
(c) Madam Humorist.
(d) The moon.

5. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) The United States.
(b) Italy.
(c) Canada.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?

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

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

4. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

5. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

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