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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 "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", the masters of what sort of schools are considered controversial and polymath?
(a) Popular.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Modern.
(d) Subtle.

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

3. Who shall be the speaker's bride in A Cooking Egg?
(a) Madame Blavatsky.
(b) Beatrice Valanche.
(c) Pipit.
(d) Lucretia Borgia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?

2. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?

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

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

5. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?

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