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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. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Alfred and Omar.
(b) Alighieri and Spenser.
(c) Matthew and Waldo.
(d) Virgil and Homer.

2. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Prester John.
(b) Madam Humorist.
(c) Eamon Rood.
(d) The moon.

3. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Oor impudent crimes.
(b) Our virtues.
(c) Our heroism.
(d) Our reconsidered passion.

4. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) The person in the Spanish cape.
(c) The waiter who brings in oranges.
(d) Rachel nee Rabinovitch.

5. Whom does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" cite as saying that "The lengthened shadow of a man / Is history"?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Tennyson.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Dilthey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following phrases is repeated throughout Part II of "The Waste Land", "A Game of Chess"?

2. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?

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

4. In Part I of "The Waste Land", "The Burial of the Dead," which month is said to be the cruelest?

5. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What happened to Phlebas the Phoenician, as described in Part IV of "The Waste Land"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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