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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. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?
(a) Beer and bread.
(b) Crumpets and scones.
(c) Fear and loathing.
(d) Tea and biscuits.

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

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

4. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Four in the morning.
(b) Noon.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Four in the afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?

2. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?

3. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", the masters of what sort of schools are considered controversial and polymath?

4. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?

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

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