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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?
(a) Tennyson.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Arnold.
(d) Dilthey.

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

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

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

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

7. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Free and living.
(b) Patient and loving.
(c) Gentile and suffering.
(d) Vast and deep.

8. 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.

9. In the fragrant brilliance of what does the subject of "Animula" take pleasure?
(a) The lapping waters of the river.
(b) The Christmas tree.
(c) The flickering candle.
(d) The shine and jingle of a set of keys.

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

11. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?
(a) Hands and feet.
(b) Forks and knives.
(c) Tables and chairs.
(d) Kisses and toys.

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

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

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

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. Which of the following phrases is repeated throughout Part II of "The Waste Land", "A Game of Chess"?

2. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?

3. What disordered objects are left in a dusty room in "Animula"?

4. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

5. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?

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