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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems (1920) - Gerontion | Poems (1920) - Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?
(a) The pavement of the stair.
(b) A vine-covered wall.
(c) A garden urn.
(d) The noon's repose.

3. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

4. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?
(a) Golden wheat.
(b) Toy soldiers.
(c) Ripe corn.
(d) Uncut grass.

5. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?
(a) Chimney sweeps.
(b) Old wives.
(c) Housemaids.
(d) Jewelers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker of "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to weave in her hair?

2. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?

3. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?

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

5. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

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