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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. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Wine.
(c) Beer.
(d) Vomit.

2. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?
(a) Sense.
(b) Faith.
(c) Anguish.
(d) Love.

3. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Pomegranates.
(c) Lives.
(d) Mangoes.

4. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) The old man.
(b) Courage.
(c) The tiger.
(d) De Bailhache.

5. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?
(a) Troubled midnight and noon's repose.
(b) The soul as bruised and torn as the body.
(c) The dawning and gloaming of the world.
(d) The lover's hair and armfull of flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?

2. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?

3. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?

4. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?

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

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