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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 is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Noon.
(b) Four in the morning.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Four in the afternoon.

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 metaphysics.
(d) Our souls.

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

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

5. What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) Orion and the Dog.
(b) Death and the Raven.
(c) Plague and the Crow.
(d) The Raven and Pestilence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I of "The Waste Land", "The Burial of the Dead," which month is said to be the cruelest?

2. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?

3. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?

4. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the apparent distinction between the two speakers in "Conversation Galante"?

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

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

5. How does Mr. Apollinax contrast with his hosts?

6. What is meant at the end of the "Journey of the Magi" by the magi saying that they found death when they encountered the Christ child?

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

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

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

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

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