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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. To what do the "lips that would kiss" in Part III of "The Hollow Men" form prayers?
(a) Broken stone.
(b) Final answers.
(c) Ancient rites.
(d) Deaf gods.

2. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?
(a) Spears of the soulless.
(b) Familiar faces turned hostile.
(c) Foreign faces and swords.
(d) Faithless faith-mongers.

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

4. Which of the following is used in Part I of "The Hollow Men" as a metaphor for the "dried voices" of the hollow men whispering to one another?
(a) Distant hinges squeaking closed.
(b) Pages of a book being thumbed in an adjacent room.
(c) Rats' feet over broken glass.
(d) Dead leaves rustling in the wind.

5. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?
(a) A rock.
(b) Flesh and blood.
(c) Sand.
(d) The mud.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?

3. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?

4. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", the masters of what sort of schools are considered controversial and polymath?

5. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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