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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. The speaker of "Ash Wednesday" informs a lady in Part II that what sat under a juniper tree?
(a) A young maid.
(b) Three white leopards.
(c) A hungry dog.
(d) Six staring skulls.

2. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?
(a) The Word.
(b) The Light.
(c) The Being.
(d) The Polyphiloprogenitive.

3. At what times does the speaker of "Animula" ask others to pray on the behalf of "us"?
(a) Now and at the hour of our death.
(b) At our birth and at our death.
(c) Now and for all eternity.
(d) Now and at the hour of our birth.

4. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?
(a) Michaelangelo.
(b) Dido.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Leonardo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?

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

3. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?

4. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?

5. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the simple soul begin its life, according to the first 13 lines of "Animula"?

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

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

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

10. What is the significance of the two stanzas concerned with Donne in "Whispers of Immortality"?

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