2. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?
(a) Night time.
(b) Mating time.
(c) At birth.
(d) The early morning.

3. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?
(a) Spears of the soulless.
(b) Foreign faces and swords.
(c) Familiar faces turned hostile.
(d) Faithless faith-mongers.

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

5. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?
(a) The death wind.
(b) The consolation of Israel.
(c) Glory and derision.
(d) The winter sun.

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

7. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?
(a) The lighting of the lamps.
(b) The tramping of a man's feet.
(c) The stamping of a horse.
(d) The rustling of a newspaper.

8. What was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?
(a) The length of their journey.
(b) The birth of Christ.
(c) The return journey.
(d) Taking up their old dispensation.

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

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

11. 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?
(a) July.
(b) October.
(c) December.
(d) March.

12. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) The woman.
(b) Himself.
(c) Eamon Rood.
(d) Prester John.

13. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Wine.
(d) Beer.

14. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?
(a) The goat's.
(b) The fox's.
(c) The lion's.
(d) The deer's.

15. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?
(a) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.
(b) Time's ruins and the seven laws.
(c) Frugality and frivolity.
(d) Tepid tea-times.