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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ariel Poems - The Cultivation of Christmas Trees.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The second coming.
(b) The beginning.
(c) The first man.
(d) The end of the world.

4. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?
(a) The dogs.
(b) The rat.
(c) The cat.
(d) The parrot.

5. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The priest.
(b) The idiot.
(c) The child.
(d) The pagan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?

2. What compels the "scampering marmoset" in "Whispers of Immortality"?

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

4. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?

5. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?

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