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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our metaphysics.
(b) Our hearts.
(c) Our souls.
(d) Our mothers.

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

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

4. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?
(a) Sense.
(b) Faith.
(c) Anguish.
(d) Love.

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

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

7. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?
(a) Lives.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Mangoes.
(d) Pomegranates.

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

9. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?
(a) Noon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Three in the afternoon.
(d) Four in the morning.

10. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?
(a) Scandalous.
(b) Modern.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Conventional.

11. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?
(a) Shed a tear.
(b) Sigh quietly.
(c) Run back down.
(d) Ring the bell.

12. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Eamon Rood.
(b) Prester John.
(c) The moon.
(d) Madam Humorist.

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

14. What does the hippopotamus do at night?
(a) Hunt.
(b) Play.
(c) Mate.
(d) Sleep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?

2. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?

3. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

4. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

5. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?

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