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

2. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Alfred and Omar.
(b) Matthew and Waldo.
(c) Virgil and Homer.
(d) Alighieri and Spenser.

3. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?
(a) Glory and derision.
(b) The death wind.
(c) The consolation of Israel.
(d) The winter sun.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?

2. In the fragrant brilliance of what does the subject of "Animula" take pleasure?

3. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?

4. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?

5. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is a possible interpretation of the line, "Teach us to care and not to care" in "Ash-Wednesday"?

4. What does the reception of the viaticum in "Animula" do for the soul?

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

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

7. For what does Simeon hope in his encounter with the Christ child?

8. What is a possible interpretation of the "notion of some infinitely gentle / Infinitely suffering thing" described near the end of the "Preludes"?

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

10. Why does the speaker not want Pipit in Heaven in "A Cooking Egg"?

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