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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. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?
(a) Cousin Melville.
(b) Cousin Thomas.
(c) Cousin Jones.
(d) Cousin Harriet.

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

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

4. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?
(a) An invitation to the dance.
(b) The Grand Chartreuse.
(c) Views of the Oxford Colleges.
(d) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?

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

3. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

4. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

5. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

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