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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 is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Madam Humorist.
(b) Eamon Rood.
(c) The moon.
(d) Prester John.

2. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?
(a) Weep.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Die.
(d) Smile.

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

4. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Gentile and suffering.
(b) Vast and deep.
(c) Patient and loving.
(d) Free and living.

5. To where do the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" come in the second stanza?
(a) A summer palace.
(b) An empty cave.
(c) A cold mountain peak.
(d) A temperate valley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?

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

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

5. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

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