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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. At what door might the speaker of "Eyes that last I saw in tears" see the eyes again?
(a) The door of death's dream kingdom.
(b) The door of death's other kingdom.
(c) The door of life's long hall.
(d) The door of dreaming.

2. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?
(a) Mating time.
(b) At birth.
(c) Night time.
(d) The early morning.

3. What is the name of the man who phones Doris in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?
(a) Willthon.
(b) Pereira.
(c) Ardon.
(d) Foster.

4. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?
(a) Dido.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Michaelangelo.

5. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our metaphysics.
(b) Our souls.
(c) Our mothers.
(d) Our hearts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?

2. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

3. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?

4. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?

5. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?

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