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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. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?
(a) Love.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Sunlight.
(d) Flowers.

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

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

4. What disordered objects are left in a dusty room in "Animula"?
(a) Shillings.
(b) Papers.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Threads.

5. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) Rachel nee Rabinovitch.
(b) The person in the Spanish cape.
(c) The waiter who brings in oranges.
(d) Agamemnon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

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

3. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?

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

5. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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