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

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

3. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?
(a) An aimless smile.
(b) A twisted face.
(c) A dry exhale.
(d) A despondent wail.

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

5. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?
(a) A table.
(b) A broadway marquee.
(c) An automobile.
(d) A chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?

2. What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

3. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?

4. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?

5. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?

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