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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems (1920) - Le Directeur, Melange Adultere de Tout, Lune de Miel | Poems (1920) - The Hippopotamus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?
(a) Stopping the shaking of her breasts.
(b) Escaping the cavern in which he has been entrapped.
(c) Constructing a boat from what he finds around him.
(d) Reassembling the fragments of her teeth.

2. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?
(a) A slice of lemon.
(b) A bitten macaroon.
(c) The sound of a centaur's hoofs.
(d) Nothing at all.

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

4. The speaker in "Hysteria" states that he becomes involved in "her" laughter until her teeth become what?
(a) Iron tables.
(b) Accidental stars.
(c) Fragments of gold.
(d) Short gasps.

5. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Beer.
(c) Wine.
(d) Vomit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hippopotamus do at night?

2. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?

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

4. At what does the "lustreless protrusive eye" stare at a perspective of in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?

5. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?

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