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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whose hand does the simple soul issue in "Animula"?
(a) God's.
(b) The world's soul's.
(c) The earth's.
(d) Man's.

2. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?
(a) Henry Bolingbroke.
(b) Othello.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Antonio.

3. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?
(a) An invitation to the dance.
(b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
(c) Views of the Oxford Colleges.
(d) The Grand Chartreuse.

4. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Four in the afternoon.
(b) Four in the morning.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Noon.

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

6. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?
(a) The silent man in mocha brown.
(b) Sweeney.
(c) The person in the Spanish cape.
(d) The man with heavy eyes.

7. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Canaletto.
(b) Sir Ferdinand Klein.
(c) Princess Volupine.
(d) The Rialto.

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

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

10. 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) The death wind.
(c) Glory and derision.
(d) The consolation of Israel.

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

12. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Beer.
(b) Wine.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Vomit.

13. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) The Russian eye.
(b) The anguish of the marrow.
(c) The Abstract Entities.
(d) The Brazilian jaguar.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

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

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

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