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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Choruses from 'The Rock'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?
(a) At birth.
(b) The early morning.
(c) Night time.
(d) Mating time.

2. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?
(a) A broadway marquee.
(b) A chair.
(c) An automobile.
(d) A table.

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

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

5. To whom are the lines of the first of the "Five Finger Exercises" written?
(a) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.
(b) A Persian Cat.
(c) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(d) A Duck in the Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?

2. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

3. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

4. In the sixth chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that it is hard for those who have never known persecution or a Christian to believe what?

5. What, in "A Song for Simeon", are said to be "blooming in bowls"?

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