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

2. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?
(a) St. Nicholas.
(b) St. Claire.
(c) St. Franics.
(d) St. Lucy.

3. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?
(a) Kisses and toys.
(b) Tables and chairs.
(c) Forks and knives.
(d) Hands and feet.

4. What reality does the poem attempt to convey behind the impressive display of the "Triumphal March"?
(a) The temporality of power.
(b) The frivolity of war.
(c) The inevitability of death.
(d) The fecundity of love.

5. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Fasinta.
(c) Slingsby.
(d) Motherly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?

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

3. From whose hand does the simple soul issue in "Animula"?

4. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", the masters of what sort of schools are considered controversial and polymath?

5. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?

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