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

2. From whose hand does the simple soul issue in "Animula"?
(a) The world's soul's.
(b) The earth's.
(c) God's.
(d) Man's.

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

4. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?
(a) The Word.
(b) The Being.
(c) The Polyphiloprogenitive.
(d) The Light.

5. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?
(a) Noon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Four in the morning.
(d) Three in the afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?

3. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", the masters of what sort of schools are considered controversial and polymath?

4. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is meant at the end of the "Journey of the Magi" by the magi saying that they found death when they encountered the Christ child?

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

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

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

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

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