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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. Who shall be the speaker's bride in A Cooking Egg?
(a) Pipit.
(b) Lucretia Borgia.
(c) Madame Blavatsky.
(d) Beatrice Valanche.

2. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?
(a) Toy soldiers.
(b) Golden wheat.
(c) Uncut grass.
(d) Ripe corn.

3. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Katerina's.
(b) Grishkin's.
(c) Gushenka's.
(d) Sonya's.

4. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Vast and deep.
(b) Patient and loving.
(c) Free and living.
(d) Gentile and suffering.

5. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Our reconsidered passion.
(b) Our heroism.
(c) Oor impudent crimes.
(d) Our virtues.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

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

5. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

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