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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. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?
(a) The beloved of the speaker.
(b) An effete boy.
(c) The speaker.
(d) An elderly waiter.

2. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?
(a) Tea and biscuits.
(b) Beer and bread.
(c) Fear and loathing.
(d) Crumpets and scones.

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

4. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our hearts.
(b) Our metaphysics.
(c) Our souls.
(d) Our mothers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?

2. To where do the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" come in the second stanza?

3. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?

4. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?

5. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?

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