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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 birth.
(b) Now and at the hour of our death.
(c) At our birth and at our death.
(d) Now and for all eternity.

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

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

5. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Tennyson.
(c) Dilthey.
(d) Emerson.

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

7. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?
(a) The Grand Piano.
(b) The Oxford English Dictionary.
(c) The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
(d) Copleston's History of Philosophy.

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

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

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

11. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?
(a) Jewelers.
(b) Old wives.
(c) Chimney sweeps.
(d) Housemaids.

12. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Nine.
(d) Zero.

13. In what shall the "True Church" of "The Hippopotamus" remained wrapped below?
(a) Eternal quagmire.
(b) Virginal robes.
(c) Miasmal mist.
(d) Splendor and glory.

14. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?
(a) Mating time.
(b) Night time.
(c) At birth.
(d) The early morning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?

2. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?

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

4. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?

5. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?

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