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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 "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?
(a) Elysian hope.
(b) Petrarchan mind.
(c) Achilles' heel.
(d) Winged foot.

2. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?
(a) Love.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Sunlight.

3. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?
(a) Short gasps.
(b) Fragments of gold.
(c) Accidental stars.
(d) Iron tables.

4. The speaker of "Ash Wednesday" informs a lady in Part II that what sat under a juniper tree?
(a) A hungry dog.
(b) A young maid.
(c) Six staring skulls.
(d) Three white leopards.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

3. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?

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

5. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?

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