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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Matthew and Waldo.
(b) Alighieri and Spenser.
(c) Alfred and Omar.
(d) Virgil and Homer.

2. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?
(a) Beer and bread.
(b) Crumpets and scones.
(c) Fear and loathing.
(d) Tea and biscuits.

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

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

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

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

7. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?
(a) Sand.
(b) A rock.
(c) The mud.
(d) Flesh and blood.

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

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

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

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

12. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Donne.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

13. What was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?
(a) Taking up their old dispensation.
(b) The return journey.
(c) The length of their journey.
(d) The birth of Christ.

14. What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) The Raven and Pestilence.
(b) Orion and the Dog.
(c) Plague and the Crow.
(d) Death and the Raven.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the last line of "Ash Wednesday" addressed?

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

3. What does the hippopotamus do at night?

4. To what do the "lips that would kiss" in Part III of "The Hollow Men" form prayers?

5. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?

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