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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. In the fragrant brilliance of what does the subject of "Animula" take pleasure?
(a) The flickering candle.
(b) The lapping waters of the river.
(c) The Christmas tree.
(d) The shine and jingle of a set of keys.

2. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?
(a) Short gasps.
(b) Fragments of gold.
(c) Accidental stars.
(d) Iron tables.

3. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?
(a) The parrot.
(b) The cat.
(c) The rat.
(d) The dogs.

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

5. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?
(a) The ten-thousandth.
(b) The fiftieth.
(c) The hundredth.
(d) The eightieth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

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

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

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

5. At the end of their journey, at what time did the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" prefer to travel?

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