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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?
(a) Nothing at all.
(b) A bitten macaroon.
(c) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.
(d) A slice of lemon.

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

9. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Ares.
(d) Aeolus.

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

11. To where do the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" come in the second stanza?
(a) A temperate valley.
(b) An empty cave.
(c) A cold mountain peak.
(d) A summer palace.

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

13. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?
(a) The beloved of the speaker.
(b) An effete boy.
(c) An elderly waiter.
(d) The speaker.

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

15. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?
(a) A chair.
(b) A broadway marquee.
(c) An automobile.
(d) A table.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?

2. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

3. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?

4. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?

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

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