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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 children's voices heard in the Landscape of New Hampshire?
(a) The bedroom.
(b) The front yard.
(c) The dining hall.
(d) The orchard.

2. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) A boy.
(b) A girl.
(c) His mother.
(d) His wife.

3. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Katerina's.
(b) Grishkin's.
(c) Sonya's.
(d) Gushenka's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what two things were the bells swinging in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

2. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?

3. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

4. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?

5. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?

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