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

2. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?
(a) A twisted face.
(b) An aimless smile.
(c) A dry exhale.
(d) A despondent wail.

3. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?
(a) Cousin Thomas.
(b) Cousin Melville.
(c) Cousin Harriet.
(d) Cousin Jones.

4. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Zero.
(d) Four.

5. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?
(a) Troubled midnight and noon's repose.
(b) The dawning and gloaming of the world.
(c) The lover's hair and armfull of flowers.
(d) The soul as bruised and torn as the body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word aptly describes the dances that "Cousin Nancy" danced?

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

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

4. At the end of their journey, at what time did the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" prefer to travel?

5. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the significance of the lion made tame in the final stanza of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

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

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