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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?
(a) Slingsby.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Motherly.
(d) Fasinta.

2. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) De Bailhache.
(b) The tiger.
(c) Courage.
(d) The old man.

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

4. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

5. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Othello.
(c) Antonio.
(d) Henry Bolingbroke.

6. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Noon.
(b) Four in the afternoon.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Four in the morning.

7. The speaker of "Ash Wednesday" informs a lady in Part II that what sat under a juniper tree?
(a) A hungry dog.
(b) Six staring skulls.
(c) Three white leopards.
(d) A young maid.

8. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Sunlight.
(d) Love.

9. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Rachel nee Rabinovitch.
(c) The waiter who brings in oranges.
(d) The person in the Spanish cape.

10. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?
(a) Dido.
(b) Leonardo.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Michaelangelo.

11. Which of the following cities is not named in Part V of "The Waste Land", "What the Thunder Said"?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Athens.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

12. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?
(a) The Being.
(b) The Polyphiloprogenitive.
(c) The Light.
(d) The Word.

13. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?
(a) The Blood of the Lamb.
(b) The water of the river.
(c) The fire of the Lord.
(d) The first snow of the year.

14. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) "The last twist of the knife."
(b) "Regard the moon."
(c) "A madman shakes a dead geranium."
(d) "Prepare for life."

15. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?
(a) A twisted face.
(b) A dry exhale.
(c) A despondent wail.
(d) An aimless smile.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?

2. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?

3. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

4. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?

5. The penultimate line in Part IV of "Ash Wednesday" mentions how many whispers from the yew?

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