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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 was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?
(a) The birth of Christ.
(b) The return journey.
(c) The length of their journey.
(d) Taking up their old dispensation.

2. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?
(a) March.
(b) July.
(c) December.
(d) October.

3. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?
(a) Cousin Melville.
(b) Cousin Harriet.
(c) Cousin Thomas.
(d) Cousin Jones.

4. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Oor impudent crimes.
(b) Our virtues.
(c) Our reconsidered passion.
(d) Our heroism.

5. To whom is the last line of "Ash Wednesday" addressed?
(a) God.
(b) Mary.
(c) The poet.
(d) Satan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

2. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?

3. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?

4. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?

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

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