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

2. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) The Rialto.
(b) Canaletto.
(c) Sir Ferdinand Klein.
(d) Princess Volupine.

3. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) The United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) Canada.
(d) Italy.

4. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Lives.
(c) Mangoes.
(d) Pomegranates.

5. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Anguish.
(d) Sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is used in Part I of "The Hollow Men" as a metaphor for the "dried voices" of the hollow men whispering to one another?

2. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?

3. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

4. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?

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

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