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

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

3. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?
(a) Mrs. Turner.
(b) The epileptic.
(c) Doris.
(d) The lady of the corridor.

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

5. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?
(a) Leonardo.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Michaelangelo.
(d) Dido.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

2. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

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

4. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

5. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?

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