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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. The speaker of "Ash Wednesday" informs a lady in Part II that what sat under a juniper tree?
(a) A young maid.
(b) Three white leopards.
(c) Six staring skulls.
(d) A hungry dog.

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

3. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?
(a) Flesh and blood.
(b) The mud.
(c) Sand.
(d) A rock.

4. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?
(a) The silent man in mocha brown.
(b) Sweeney.
(c) The man with heavy eyes.
(d) The person in the Spanish cape.

5. Which of the following cities is not named in Part V of "The Waste Land", "What the Thunder Said"?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?

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

3. The penultimate line in Part IV of "Ash Wednesday" mentions how many whispers from the yew?

4. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

5. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the simple soul begin its life, according to the first 13 lines of "Animula"?

2. What is the tone of the speaker in "Morning at the Window" and why?

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

4. What is implied by stating in "The Hippopotamus" that the "True Church need never stir / To gather in its dividends"?

5. What does the "Boston Evening Transcript" seem to symbolize in the poem of the same name?

6. What happened to Phlebas the Phoenician, as described in Part IV of "The Waste Land"?

7. How has Simeon passed his life, as described in "A Song for Simeon"?

8. What is the significance of the intimacy between the footman and the second housemaid in "Aunt Helen"?

9. What is the tone of the speaker towards his life in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night", and how is this indicated in the poem?

10. What characterizes the speech of the stuffed men in "The Hollow Men"?

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