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

2. The juice of what does Mr. Hodgson press on "his palate fine" in "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) Fresh cantaloupe.
(b) Fresh young geese.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Gooseberry tart.

3. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?
(a) Views of the Oxford Colleges.
(b) The Grand Chartreuse.
(c) An invitation to the dance.
(d) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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

5. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?
(a) The noon's repose.
(b) The pavement of the stair.
(c) A garden urn.
(d) A vine-covered wall.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?

3. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", the masters of what sort of schools are considered controversial and polymath?

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

5. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

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