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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines for an Old Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The juice of what does Mr. Hodgson press on "his palate fine" in "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) Gooseberry tart.
(b) Fresh young geese.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Fresh cantaloupe.

2. What is not more still than when the speaker of "Lines for an Old Man" smells "the enemy"?
(a) The palpitations of the heart.
(b) The writhing fool.
(c) The whipping tail.
(d) The duck's wobbling head.

3. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?
(a) Anger of ignored cry.
(b) Clamour of confused wrong.
(c) Listlessness of ancient war.
(d) Langour of broken steel.

4. What, in "A Song for Simeon", are said to be "blooming in bowls"?
(a) Roman hyacinths.
(b) Frankish tulips.
(c) English laurels.
(d) Israeli violets.

5. The speaker says that the readers of the "Boston Evening Transcript" sway "in the wind like a field of" what?
(a) Toy soldiers.
(b) Golden wheat.
(c) Uncut grass.
(d) Ripe corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do "these cogitations" sometimes "still amaze" in "La Figlia che Piange"?

2. Who is claimed as "our sentimental friend" in "Conversation Galante"?

3. What is the name of the man who phones Doris in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?

4. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", it is said that in the beginning was what?

5. In order to keep what warm does "our lot" crawl "between dry ribs" at the end of "Whispers of Immortality"?

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