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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 God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Ares.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Hercules.
(d) Apollo.

2. What was for the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi"a death?
(a) The birth of Christ.
(b) The length of their journey.
(c) Taking up their old dispensation.
(d) The return journey.

3. 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 metaphysics.
(c) Our hearts.
(d) Our souls.

4. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?
(a) Courage.
(b) De Bailhache.
(c) The tiger.
(d) The old man.

5. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?
(a) Time's ruins and the seven laws.
(b) Frugality and frivolity.
(c) Tepid tea-times.
(d) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?

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

3. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?

4. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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