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

2. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?
(a) Aeolus.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Ares.
(d) Zeus.

3. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?
(a) The Polyphiloprogenitive.
(b) The Word.
(c) The Being.
(d) The Light.

4. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?
(a) The Grand Chartreuse.
(b) Views of the Oxford Colleges.
(c) An invitation to the dance.
(d) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?

2. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?

3. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?

4. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?

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

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