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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. What does the hippopotamus do at night?
(a) Mate.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Hunt.
(d) Play.

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

3. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?
(a) Stopping the shaking of her breasts.
(b) Reassembling the fragments of her teeth.
(c) Escaping the cavern in which he has been entrapped.
(d) Constructing a boat from what he finds around him.

4. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?
(a) The consolation of Israel.
(b) The winter sun.
(c) Glory and derision.
(d) The death wind.

5. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?
(a) The first-remembered Christmas meal.
(b) The last-remembered Christmas Tree.
(c) The first-remembered Christmas present.
(d) The first-remembered Christmas Tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?

2. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?

3. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?

4. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?

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

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