View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Anguish.
(d) Sense.

2. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?
(a) October.
(b) July.
(c) December.
(d) March.

3. To whom is the last line of "Ash Wednesday" addressed?
(a) God.
(b) Mary.
(c) The poet.
(d) Satan.

4. What, according to the end of Part V of "The Hollow Men", is the way the world ends?
(a) With a bang.
(b) In dazzling silence.
(c) With a whimper.
(d) Under the shadow.

5. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?
(a) A table.
(b) A chair.
(c) An automobile.
(d) A broadway marquee.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what shall the "True Church" of "The Hippopotamus" remained wrapped below?

2. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?

3. What disordered objects are left in a dusty room in "Animula"?

4. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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"?

5. For what does Simeon hope in his encounter with the Christ child?

6. What is the tone of the speaker towards his life in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night", and how is this indicated in the poem?

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 meant in The Hippopotamus by stating that the "True Church remains below / Wrapt in the old miasmal mist"?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 788 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample