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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Minor Poems- Eyes that last I saw in tears.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people enjoy about marches like the one described in the "Triumphal March"?
(a) The spectacle of power.
(b) The promise of a better future.
(c) The loss of human life.
(d) The acquisition of goods.

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

3. What does the hippopotamus do at night?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Play.
(c) Hunt.
(d) Mate.

4. What reality does the poem attempt to convey behind the impressive display of the "Triumphal March"?
(a) The inevitability of death.
(b) The temporality of power.
(c) The frivolity of war.
(d) The fecundity of love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the hippopotamus never reach, in contrast to the Church which is refreshed by similar objects from overseas?

2. How many men appear in the fragment of an Agon in the "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?

3. For what did Donne in "Whispers of Immortality" find no substitute?

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

5. The row of family portraits, "dingy busts," in "Difficulties of a Statesman" all look remarkably what?

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