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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?
(a) December.
(b) July.
(c) March.
(d) October.

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

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

6. 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) The consolation of Israel.
(c) The winter sun.
(d) Glory and derision.

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

8. 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.

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

10. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?
(a) Toy soldiers.
(b) Golden wheat.
(c) Ripe corn.
(d) Uncut grass.

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

12. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) Canada.
(b) The United States.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

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

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

15. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) Courage.
(b) De Bailhache.
(c) The tiger.
(d) The old man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

3. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?

4. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?

5. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?

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