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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 was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Sokoski.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Slingsby.
(d) Ellicott.

2. To where do the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" come in the second stanza?
(a) An empty cave.
(b) A summer palace.
(c) A temperate valley.
(d) A cold mountain peak.

3. In what shall the "True Church" of "The Hippopotamus" remained wrapped below?
(a) Splendor and glory.
(b) Miasmal mist.
(c) Eternal quagmire.
(d) Virginal robes.

4. Behind what does the "small soul" of "Animula" curl up?
(a) Copleston's History of Philosophy.
(b) The Grand Piano.
(c) The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
(d) The Oxford English Dictionary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?

2. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. How has Simeon passed his life, as described in "A Song for Simeon"?

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

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

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

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

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