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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?
(a) The noon's repose.
(b) A vine-covered wall.
(c) A garden urn.
(d) The pavement of the stair.

5. To what do the "lips that would kiss" in Part III of "The Hollow Men" form prayers?
(a) Ancient rites.
(b) Deaf gods.
(c) Broken stone.
(d) Final answers.

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

7. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?
(a) Accidental stars.
(b) Short gasps.
(c) Iron tables.
(d) Fragments of gold.

8. Which of the following cities is not named in Part V of "The Waste Land", "What the Thunder Said"?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Athens.

9. 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.

10. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?
(a) Housemaids.
(b) Jewelers.
(c) Chimney sweeps.
(d) Old wives.

11. At the end of their journey, at what time did the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" prefer to travel?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Evening.
(c) Morning.
(d) Night.

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

13. To whom is the last line of "Ash Wednesday" addressed?
(a) The poet.
(b) Satan.
(c) God.
(d) Mary.

14. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?
(a) Smile.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Weep.
(d) Die.

15. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?

2. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?

3. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?

4. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?

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

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