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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?
(a) Nine.
(b) Zero.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

2. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?
(a) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.
(b) A bitten macaroon.
(c) A slice of lemon.
(d) Nothing at all.

3. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?
(a) Aeolus.
(b) Ares.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Zeus.

4. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?
(a) The soul as bruised and torn as the body.
(b) The lover's hair and armfull of flowers.
(c) The dawning and gloaming of the world.
(d) Troubled midnight and noon's repose.

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

6. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Our reconsidered passion.
(b) Our virtues.
(c) Oor impudent crimes.
(d) Our heroism.

7. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Ares.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Zeus.

8. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?
(a) Milesian.
(b) Umbrian.
(c) Ambrosian.
(d) Elysian.

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

10. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Virgil and Homer.
(b) Alfred and Omar.
(c) Matthew and Waldo.
(d) Alighieri and Spenser.

11. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) The Infant.
(b) Israel.
(c) The Foreigner.
(d) The Servant.

12. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?
(a) Fear and loathing.
(b) Tea and biscuits.
(c) Beer and bread.
(d) Crumpets and scones.

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

14. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?
(a) The rat.
(b) The dogs.
(c) The cat.
(d) The parrot.

15. Who shall be the speaker's bride in A Cooking Egg?
(a) Madame Blavatsky.
(b) Beatrice Valanche.
(c) Pipit.
(d) Lucretia Borgia.

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. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?

3. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

4. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

5. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?

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