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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. The penultimate line in Part IV of "Ash Wednesday" mentions how many whispers from the yew?
(a) An infinity.
(b) A hundred.
(c) One.
(d) A thousand.

2. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?
(a) Dingy.
(b) Shredded.
(c) Rolled.
(d) Pressed.

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

4. 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) Canaletto.
(c) Sir Ferdinand Klein.
(d) Princess Volupine.

5. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?
(a) Constructing a boat from what he finds around him.
(b) Escaping the cavern in which he has been entrapped.
(c) Reassembling the fragments of her teeth.
(d) Stopping the shaking of her breasts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say is not more irritable than he in "Lines for an Old Man"?

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

3. In the fragrant brilliance of what does the subject of "Animula" take pleasure?

4. The speaker of "Eyes that last I saw in tears" says that what he sees, but that what he does not see, is his what?

5. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?

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