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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. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?
(a) A girl.
(b) A boy.
(c) His mother.
(d) His wife.

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

3. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) The Servant.
(b) The Foreigner.
(c) The Infant.
(d) Israel.

4. What, in "A Song for Simeon", are said to be "blooming in bowls"?
(a) English laurels.
(b) Frankish tulips.
(c) Roman hyacinths.
(d) Israeli violets.

5. To what animal's path will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children take?
(a) The fox's.
(b) The goat's.
(c) The lion's.
(d) The deer's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

2. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?

3. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?

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

5. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

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