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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. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?
(a) The Grand Piano.
(b) Copleston's History of Philosophy.
(c) The Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) The Encyclopaedia Britannica.

2. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?
(a) Now and for all eternity.
(b) Now and at the hour of our birth.
(c) Now and at the hour of our death.
(d) At our birth and at our death.

3. 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 first-remembered Christmas present.
(c) The first-remembered Christmas Tree.
(d) The last-remembered Christmas Tree.

4. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Ares.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Apollo.

5. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Princess Volupine.
(b) Sir Ferdinand Klein.
(c) The Rialto.
(d) Canaletto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people enjoy about marches like the one described in the "Triumphal March"?

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

3. Which of the following phrases is repeated throughout Part II of "The Waste Land", "A Game of Chess"?

4. What do the seams need in "Marina"?

5. To whom are the lines of the first of the "Five Finger Exercises" written?

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