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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of the following phrases is repeated throughout Part II of "The Waste Land", "A Game of Chess"?
(a) "I can't help it."
(b) "Hurry up please it's time."
(c) "Sweet Thames, run softly."
(d) "Shantih, Shantih, Shantih."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?

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

3. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

4. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

5. What does the hippopotamus do at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the meaning of the phrase in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" , "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"?

2. What sort of life did the speaker of "Gerontion" live?

3. Who are the "ladies of the corridor" in "Sweeney Erect"?

4. What is meant in The Hippopotamus by stating that the "True Church remains below / Wrapt in the old miasmal mist"?

5. Why is Sweeney uncomfortable in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?

6. What is the relationship between the speaker and his interlocutor in "Portrait of a Lady"?

7. What sort of people are the "nightingales" among whom Sweeney cavorts in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

8. How does Mr. Apollinax contrast with his hosts?

9. What is the significance of the "guardians of the faith" keeping watch upon the shelves in "Cousin Nancy"?

10. What is the apparent distinction between the two speakers in "Conversation Galante"?

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