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

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

3. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?
(a) Troubled midnight and noon's repose.
(b) The dawning and gloaming of the world.
(c) The soul as bruised and torn as the body.
(d) The lover's hair and armfull of flowers.

4. 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?
(a) October.
(b) July.
(c) December.
(d) March.

5. To whom does the speaker hand a copy of the "Boston Evening Transcript"?
(a) Cousin Jones.
(b) Cousin Thomas.
(c) Cousin Harriet.
(d) Cousin Melville.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does the speaker in "La Figlia che Piange" tell his auditor to lean?

2. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?

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

4. What is the last phrase of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?

5. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?

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