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

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

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

4. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) The Brazilian jaguar.
(b) The Abstract Entities.
(c) The anguish of the marrow.
(d) The Russian eye.

5. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?
(a) Antonio.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Henry Bolingbroke.
(d) Othello.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

4. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?

5. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

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