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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) The person in the Spanish cape.
(c) The waiter who brings in oranges.
(d) Rachel nee Rabinovitch.

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

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

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

5. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Slingsby.
(c) Motherly.
(d) Fasinta.

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

7. At the end of their journey, at what time did the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" prefer to travel?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Night.
(c) Morning.
(d) Evening.

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

9. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?
(a) Cousin Jones.
(b) Cousin Melville.
(c) Cousin Harriet.
(d) Cousin Thomas.

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

11. To whom is the last line of "Ash Wednesday" addressed?
(a) God.
(b) Mary.
(c) The poet.
(d) Satan.

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

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

14. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) The Servant.
(b) The Foreigner.
(c) The Infant.
(d) Israel.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?

3. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?

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

5. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?

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