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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) Vast and deep.
(b) Gentile and suffering.
(c) Patient and loving.
(d) Free and living.

2. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?
(a) Rolled.
(b) Dingy.
(c) Shredded.
(d) Pressed.

3. The penultimate line in Part IV of "Ash Wednesday" mentions how many whispers from the yew?
(a) A thousand.
(b) One.
(c) A hundred.
(d) An infinity.

4. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?
(a) Five.
(b) Zero.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

3. What, according to the end of Part V of "The Hollow Men", is the way the world ends?

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

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

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