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

2. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Lives.
(c) Pomegranates.
(d) Mangoes.

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

4. What is the last time mentioned in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"?
(a) Four in the morning.
(b) Four in the afternoon.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Noon.

5. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?
(a) Petrarchan mind.
(b) Achilles' heel.
(c) Winged foot.
(d) Elysian hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?

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

3. What animal died shortly after "Aunt Helen"?

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

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

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