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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. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?
(a) The early morning.
(b) Night time.
(c) Mating time.
(d) At birth.

2. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?
(a) Smile.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Weep.
(d) Die.

3. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) A boy.
(b) His wife.
(c) His mother.
(d) A girl.

4. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?
(a) Ancient cupboards.
(b) Basement kitchens.
(c) Dining halls.
(d) Oaken tables.

5. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?
(a) Elysian.
(b) Umbrian.
(c) Ambrosian.
(d) Milesian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?

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

3. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?

4. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?

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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