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

2. Who shall be the speaker's bride in A Cooking Egg?
(a) Pipit.
(b) Beatrice Valanche.
(c) Lucretia Borgia.
(d) Madame Blavatsky.

3. What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) The Raven and Pestilence.
(b) Plague and the Crow.
(c) Orion and the Dog.
(d) Death and the Raven.

4. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Katerina's.
(b) Gushenka's.
(c) Sonya's.
(d) Grishkin's.

5. In the fragrant brilliance of what does the subject of "Animula" take pleasure?
(a) The Christmas tree.
(b) The shine and jingle of a set of keys.
(c) The lapping waters of the river.
(d) The flickering candle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, according to the end of Part V of "The Hollow Men", is the way the world ends?

3. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?

4. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?

5. To whom is the last line of "Ash Wednesday" addressed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is a possible interpretation of the last two lines of "Whispers of Immortality", "But our lot crawls between dry ribs / To keep our metaphysics warm"?

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

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

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

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

8. For what is the speaker yearning in "La Figlia che Piange", and what indicates this?

9. What is the significance of the two stanzas concerned with Donne in "Whispers of Immortality"?

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

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