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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. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Noon.
(b) Four in the afternoon.
(c) Four in the morning.
(d) Midnight.

2. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?
(a) The parrot.
(b) The cat.
(c) The rat.
(d) The dogs.

3. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Our virtues.
(b) Our heroism.
(c) Our reconsidered passion.
(d) Oor impudent crimes.

4. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?
(a) The lighting of the lamps.
(b) The stamping of a horse.
(c) The tramping of a man's feet.
(d) The rustling of a newspaper.

5. In what shall the "True Church" of "The Hippopotamus" remained wrapped below?
(a) Virginal robes.
(b) Splendor and glory.
(c) Eternal quagmire.
(d) Miasmal mist.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

2. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

3. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?

4. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

5. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?

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