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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. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?
(a) A chair.
(b) An automobile.
(c) A broadway marquee.
(d) A table.

2. The speaker sees what, but not what in the first stanza of "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) Death, but not the dream.
(b) The tears, but not the eyes.
(c) The eyes, but not the tears.
(d) The kingdom, but not the river.

3. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?
(a) Copleston's History of Philosophy.
(b) The Grand Piano.
(c) The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
(d) The Oxford English Dictionary.

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

5. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Katerina's.
(b) Sonya's.
(c) Gushenka's.
(d) Grishkin's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?

2. What disordered objects are left in a dusty room in "Animula"?

3. The speaker of "Ash Wednesday" informs a lady in Part II that what sat under a juniper tree?

4. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

5. How many of the characters are women in the fragment of a prologue?

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