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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. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) The Infant.
(b) The Servant.
(c) Israel.
(d) The Foreigner.

2. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?
(a) Life.
(b) Donne.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Death.

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

4. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) The anguish of the marrow.
(b) The Brazilian jaguar.
(c) The Russian eye.
(d) The Abstract Entities.

5. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?
(a) The man with heavy eyes.
(b) The person in the Spanish cape.
(c) Sweeney.
(d) The silent man in mocha brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?

2. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?

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

4. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

5. What was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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