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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is used in Part I of "The Hollow Men" as a metaphor for the "dried voices" of the hollow men whispering to one another?
(a) Distant hinges squeaking closed.
(b) Pages of a book being thumbed in an adjacent room.
(c) Dead leaves rustling in the wind.
(d) Rats' feet over broken glass.

2. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?
(a) Faith.
(b) Sense.
(c) Anguish.
(d) Love.

3. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our hearts.
(b) Our souls.
(c) Our metaphysics.
(d) Our mothers.

4. What disordered objects are left in a dusty room in "Animula"?
(a) Papers.
(b) Shillings.
(c) Threads.
(d) Clothes.

5. The penultimate line in Part IV of "Ash Wednesday" mentions how many whispers from the yew?
(a) An infinity.
(b) One.
(c) A hundred.
(d) A thousand.

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

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

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

9. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) A girl.
(b) His wife.
(c) His mother.
(d) A boy.

10. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?
(a) Now and at the hour of our death.
(b) Now and at the hour of our birth.
(c) At our birth and at our death.
(d) Now and for all eternity.

11. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) "Prepare for life."
(b) "A madman shakes a dead geranium."
(c) "Regard the moon."
(d) "The last twist of the knife."

12. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?
(a) The fox's.
(b) The deer's.
(c) The goat's.
(d) The lion's.

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

14. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?
(a) Raphael.
(b) Michaelangelo.
(c) Dido.
(d) Leonardo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?

2. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?

3. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

4. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?

5. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?

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