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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. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?
(a) Kisses and toys.
(b) Hands and feet.
(c) Forks and knives.
(d) Tables and chairs.

2. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?
(a) Umbrian.
(b) Elysian.
(c) Milesian.
(d) Ambrosian.

3. Whose "Russian eye" in "Whispers of Immortality" is "underlined for emphasis"?
(a) Gushenka's.
(b) Katerina's.
(c) Sonya's.
(d) Grishkin's.

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

5. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?
(a) Achilles' heel.
(b) Elysian hope.
(c) Winged foot.
(d) Petrarchan mind.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

3. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

4. 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?

5. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the relationship between the speaker and his interlocutor in "Portrait of a Lady"?

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

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

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

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