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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) Fresh young geese.
(b) Fresh cantaloupe.
(c) Gooseberry tart.
(d) Strawberries.

2. Upon what is the "True Church" in The Hippopotamus based?
(a) The mud.
(b) A rock.
(c) Flesh and blood.
(d) Sand.

3. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The second coming.
(b) The beginning.
(c) The first man.
(d) The end of the world.

4. If the eyes spoken of in "Eyes that last I saw in tears" outlast the tears, in what will they hold the speaker?
(a) Love.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Definition.
(d) Derision.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom is the speaker in the first stanza of "Gerontion" being read?

2. What is not more still than when the speaker of "Lines for an Old Man" smells "the enemy"?

3. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?

4. Over what do multitudes weep, as reported in the final stanza of A Cooking Egg?

5. What is celebrated by those marching into the city in "Triumphal March"?

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