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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. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) The tiger.
(b) De Bailhache.
(c) The old man.
(d) Courage.

2. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?
(a) An effete boy.
(b) The speaker.
(c) The beloved of the speaker.
(d) An elderly waiter.

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

4. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Daffodil bulbs.
(b) Eyeballs.
(c) Skeletal jaguars.
(d) Unfettered souls.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?

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

3. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?

4. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

5. What was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?

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