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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) A hungry dog.
(c) Three white leopards.
(d) Six staring skulls.

2. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?
(a) Our souls.
(b) Our hearts.
(c) Our metaphysics.
(d) Our mothers.

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

4. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?
(a) The silent man in mocha brown.
(b) The person in the Spanish cape.
(c) Sweeney.
(d) The man with heavy eyes.

5. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) Italy.
(b) The United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?

2. What shall happen to those who praise the auditor of "A Song for Simeon"?

3. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

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

5. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What sort of people are the "nightingales" among whom Sweeney cavorts in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

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

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

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

8. What is a possible interpretation of the last two lines of "Whispers of Immortality", "But our lot crawls between dry ribs / To keep our metaphysics warm"?

9. Who are the "ladies of the corridor" in "Sweeney Erect"?

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

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