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

2. Between what two things are "Whispers and small laughter" found in "Marina"?
(a) Leaves and hurrying feet.
(b) Fire and heat.
(c) Memories and future joys.
(d) Water and ice.

3. What was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?
(a) Taking up their old dispensation.
(b) The return journey.
(c) The birth of Christ.
(d) The length of their journey.

4. What is not more still than when the speaker of "Lines for an Old Man" smells "the enemy"?
(a) The whipping tail.
(b) The writhing fool.
(c) The duck's wobbling head.
(d) The palpitations of the heart.

5. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?
(a) The silent man in mocha brown.
(b) The man with heavy eyes.
(c) The person in the Spanish cape.
(d) Sweeney.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image is used as a metaphor in the second Landscape?

2. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

3. Where are children's voices heard in the Landscape of New Hampshire?

4. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

5. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?

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