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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ash-Wednesday (1930) | Ariel Poems - Journey of the Magi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Patient and loving.
(b) Free and living.
(c) Vast and deep.
(d) Gentile and suffering.

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

3. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

4. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Slingsby.
(c) Ellicott.
(d) Sokoski.

5. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) "Regard the moon."
(b) "The last twist of the knife."
(c) "Prepare for life."
(d) "A madman shakes a dead geranium."

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

3. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?

4. To what do the "lips that would kiss" in Part III of "The Hollow Men" form prayers?

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

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