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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. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Alighieri and Spenser.
(b) Alfred and Omar.
(c) Virgil and Homer.
(d) Matthew and Waldo.

2. In what kingdom is the speaker of "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Life's dead kingdom.
(b) Death's dream kingdom
(c) Death's ancient kingdom.
(d) Time's timeless kingdom.

3. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Oor impudent crimes.
(b) Our virtues.
(c) Our heroism.
(d) Our reconsidered passion.

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

5. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?
(a) The Polyphiloprogenitive.
(b) The Light.
(c) The Being.
(d) The Word.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?

2. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?

3. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?

4. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?

5. Across what river do the Tartar horsemen shake their spears in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

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