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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. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?
(a) The goat's.
(b) The deer's.
(c) The lion's.
(d) The fox's.

2. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our mothers.
(b) Our hearts.
(c) Our souls.
(d) Our metaphysics.

3. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Oor impudent crimes.
(b) Our reconsidered passion.
(c) Our virtues.
(d) Our heroism.

4. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Motherly.
(c) Slingsby.
(d) Fasinta.

5. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) His mother.
(b) His wife.
(c) A boy.
(d) A girl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?

3. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

4. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?

5. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who are the "ladies of the corridor" in "Sweeney Erect"?

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

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

5. What evidently characterizes the woman in "Hysteria"?

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

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

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

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

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

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