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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. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?
(a) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.
(b) Tepid tea-times.
(c) Frugality and frivolity.
(d) Time's ruins and the seven laws.

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

3. Which of the following have not "become unsubstantial" in "Marina"?
(a) Those who sharpen the tooth of the dog.
(b) Those who suffer the ecstasy of the animals.
(c) Those who glide with the joy of the lark.
(d) Those who sit in the sty of contentment.

4. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?
(a) Iron tables.
(b) Short gasps.
(c) Accidental stars.
(d) Fragments of gold.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Between what two things are "Whispers and small laughter" found in "Marina"?

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

4. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?

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

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