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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 is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?
(a) A bitten macaroon.
(b) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) A slice of lemon.

2. 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) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.
(c) Time's ruins and the seven laws.
(d) Tepid tea-times.

3. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?
(a) Troubled midnight and noon's repose.
(b) The soul as bruised and torn as the body.
(c) The lover's hair and armfull of flowers.
(d) The dawning and gloaming of the world.

4. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) His wife.
(b) A boy.
(c) A girl.
(d) His mother.

5. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Henry Bolingbroke.
(c) Othello.
(d) Antonio.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, according to the end of Part V of "The Hollow Men", is the way the world ends?

3. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?

4. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

5. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?

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