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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Minor Poems- Eyes that last I saw in tears.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The row of family portraits, "dingy busts," in "Difficulties of a Statesman" all look remarkably what?
(a) Morose.
(b) Jovial.
(c) French.
(d) Roman.

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

3. If the eyes spoken of in "Eyes that last I saw in tears" outlast the tears, in what will they hold the speaker?
(a) Definition.
(b) Love.
(c) Derision.
(d) Contempt.

4. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Our heroism.
(b) Oor impudent crimes.
(c) Our virtues.
(d) Our reconsidered passion.

5. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?
(a) The fox's.
(b) The goat's.
(c) The deer's.
(d) The lion's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?

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

3. What sort bird calls through the fog at the end of "Marina"?

4. What object in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" is related to a coffin?

5. What is celebrated by those marching into the city in "Triumphal March"?

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