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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. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?
(a) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.
(b) Frugality and frivolity.
(c) Tepid tea-times.
(d) Time's ruins and the seven laws.

2. What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) Plague and the Crow.
(b) Orion and the Dog.
(c) Death and the Raven.
(d) The Raven and Pestilence.

3. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?
(a) Jewelers.
(b) Chimney sweeps.
(c) Old wives.
(d) Housemaids.

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

5. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?
(a) Modern.
(b) Conventional.
(c) Scandalous.
(d) Conservative.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?

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

4. Who shall be the speaker's bride in A Cooking Egg?

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

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