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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Our heroism.
(b) Oor impudent crimes.
(c) Our reconsidered passion.
(d) Our virtues.

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

4. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?
(a) A despondent wail.
(b) An aimless smile.
(c) A twisted face.
(d) A dry exhale.

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

6. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Scandalous.
(c) Modern.
(d) Conventional.

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

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

9. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?
(a) Milesian.
(b) Elysian.
(c) Ambrosian.
(d) Umbrian.

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

11. What, according to the end of Part V of "The Hollow Men", is the way the world ends?
(a) With a bang.
(b) Under the shadow.
(c) With a whimper.
(d) In dazzling silence.

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

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

14. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?
(a) The noon's repose.
(b) A vine-covered wall.
(c) A garden urn.
(d) The pavement of the stair.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

3. The speaker of "Ash Wednesday" informs a lady in Part II that what sat under a juniper tree?

4. In Part I of "The Waste Land", "The Burial of the Dead," which month is said to be the cruelest?

5. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?

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