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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ash-Wednesday (1930) | Ariel Poems - Journey of the Magi.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tries to sit on Sweeney's knees in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) The person in the Spanish cape.
(c) The waiter who brings in oranges.
(d) Rachel nee Rabinovitch.

3. Which Greek god does the speaker in "Sweeney Erect" insist be displayed above him in the poem's second stanza?
(a) Ares.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Aeolus.

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

5. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) Germany.
(b) The United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?

3. When does the hippo's voice betray "inflexions hoarse and odd"?

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

5. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?

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