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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. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?
(a) Oaken tables.
(b) Dining halls.
(c) Ancient cupboards.
(d) Basement kitchens.

2. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?
(a) Cousin Harriet.
(b) Cousin Melville.
(c) Cousin Thomas.
(d) Cousin Jones.

3. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) The Russian eye.
(b) The Abstract Entities.
(c) The Brazilian jaguar.
(d) The anguish of the marrow.

4. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?
(a) Sigh quietly.
(b) Shed a tear.
(c) Ring the bell.
(d) Run back down.

5. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Eamon Rood.
(b) Madam Humorist.
(c) The moon.
(d) Prester John.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is repeated at the end of "Difficulties of a Statesman"?

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

3. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?

4. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?

5. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?

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