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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. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?
(a) Three in the afternoon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Noon.
(d) Four in the morning.

2. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?
(a) St. Lucy.
(b) St. Claire.
(c) St. Nicholas.
(d) St. Franics.

3. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?
(a) The tramping of a man's feet.
(b) The lighting of the lamps.
(c) The stamping of a horse.
(d) The rustling of a newspaper.

4. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The first man.
(b) The end of the world.
(c) The second coming.
(d) The beginning.

5. To which of the following are the lines of the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises" addressed?
(a) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(b) Mirza Murad Ali Beg.
(c) Mr. Eliot.
(d) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many characters are in the fragment of a prologue?

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

3. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?

4. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

5. To whom is the last line of "Ash Wednesday" addressed?

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