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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems (1920) - Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service | Poems (1920) - Sweeney Among the Nightingales.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What shall wash the hippopotamus clean?
(a) The Blood of the Lamb.
(b) The fire of the Lord.
(c) The water of the river.
(d) The first snow of the year.

4. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?
(a) A twisted face.
(b) A dry exhale.
(c) An aimless smile.
(d) A despondent wail.

5. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?
(a) An effete boy.
(b) An elderly waiter.
(c) The speaker.
(d) The beloved of the speaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?

2. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?

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

4. Who is the literal "he" that devours "us" in line 48 of "Gerontion"?

5. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?

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