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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?
(a) Winged foot.
(b) Elysian hope.
(c) Petrarchan mind.
(d) Achilles' heel.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Ellicott.
(b) Slingsby.
(c) Sokoski.
(d) Eliot.

9. In Part I of "The Waste Land", "The Burial of the Dead," which month is said to be the cruelest?
(a) December.
(b) May.
(c) April.
(d) October.

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

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

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

13. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?
(a) Mrs. Turner.
(b) The lady of the corridor.
(c) The epileptic.
(d) Doris.

14. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Skeletal jaguars.
(b) Eyeballs.
(c) Unfettered souls.
(d) Daffodil bulbs.

15. What shall happen to those who praise the auditor of "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) They shall be like gods in the eyes of men.
(b) They shall suffer on earth.
(c) They shall wither.
(d) They shall be gloried on earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?

2. What does the hippopotamus do at night?

3. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

4. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?

5. In what shall the "True Church" of "The Hippopotamus" remained wrapped below?

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