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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. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Alighieri and Spenser.
(b) Virgil and Homer.
(c) Matthew and Waldo.
(d) Alfred and Omar.

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

3. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Madam Humorist.
(b) Eamon Rood.
(c) Prester John.
(d) The moon.

4. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?
(a) An effete boy.
(b) The beloved of the speaker.
(c) The speaker.
(d) An elderly waiter.

5. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Skeletal jaguars.
(b) Daffodil bulbs.
(c) Unfettered souls.
(d) Eyeballs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?

2. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?

3. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?

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

5. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?

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