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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines for an Old Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?
(a) Doris.
(b) Mrs. Turner.
(c) The epileptic.
(d) The lady of the corridor.

2. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?
(a) Die.
(b) Smile.
(c) Weep.
(d) Laugh.

3. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Noon.
(b) Four in the morning.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Four in the afternoon.

4. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?
(a) Uncut grass.
(b) Ripe corn.
(c) Toy soldiers.
(d) Golden wheat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?

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

3. In the second of the "Five Finger Exercises", what stands in the brown field?

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

5. Between what two things were the bells swinging in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

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