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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. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?
(a) Sand.
(b) The mud.
(c) Flesh and blood.
(d) A rock.

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

3. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?
(a) Spears of the soulless.
(b) Familiar faces turned hostile.
(c) Foreign faces and swords.
(d) Faithless faith-mongers.

4. How many characters are in the fragment of a prologue?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort bird calls through the fog at the end of "Marina"?

2. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

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

4. What is the name of the man who phones Doris in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?

5. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?

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