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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. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Aeolus.
(d) Ares.

2. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Eamon Rood.
(b) Prester John.
(c) The woman.
(d) Himself.

3. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?
(a) Elysian hope.
(b) Winged foot.
(c) Petrarchan mind.
(d) Achilles' heel.

4. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?
(a) Umbrian.
(b) Milesian.
(c) Ambrosian.
(d) Elysian.

5. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) The Russian eye.
(b) The Brazilian jaguar.
(c) The anguish of the marrow.
(d) The Abstract Entities.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men appear in the fragment of an Agon in the "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?

2. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

3. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?

4. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?

5. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?

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