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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 God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Ares.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Apollo.

2. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?
(a) The lighting of the lamps.
(b) The tramping of a man's feet.
(c) The stamping of a horse.
(d) The rustling of a newspaper.

3. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?
(a) Dilthey.
(b) Tennyson.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Arnold.

4. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) The Russian eye.
(b) The Brazilian jaguar.
(c) The Abstract Entities.
(d) The anguish of the marrow.

5. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Grishkin's.
(b) Katerina's.
(c) Gushenka's.
(d) Sonya's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?

2. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?

3. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?

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

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

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