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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 event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?
(a) The lighting of the lamps.
(b) The tramping of a man's feet.
(c) The stamping of a horse.
(d) The rustling of a newspaper.

2. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Dilthey.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Emerson.

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

4. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Matthew and Waldo.
(b) Alighieri and Spenser.
(c) Virgil and Homer.
(d) Alfred and Omar.

5. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Wine.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Beer.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the last line of "Ash Wednesday" addressed?

2. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?

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

4. What was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?

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

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