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

2. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Modern.
(c) Conventional.
(d) Scandalous.

3. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?
(a) The silent man in mocha brown.
(b) The man with heavy eyes.
(c) The person in the Spanish cape.
(d) Sweeney.

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

5. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) "Regard the moon."
(b) "The last twist of the knife."
(c) "Prepare for life."
(d) "A madman shakes a dead geranium."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?

2. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?

3. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?

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

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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