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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. What God slowly left Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Ares.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Apollo.

2. By what in "Whispers of Immortality" was Webster much possessed?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Donne.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

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

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) December.
(b) July.
(c) March.
(d) October.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?

5. What is the last thing the speaker remembers of Mrs. Phlaccus and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah in "Mr. Apollinax"?

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