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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what is it said that Burbank in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" is meditating at the poem's end?
(a) Time's ruins and the seven laws.
(b) Frugality and frivolity.
(c) The vacillations of seasonal uniformity.
(d) Tepid tea-times.

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

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

4. In Part I of "The Waste Land", "The Burial of the Dead," which month is said to be the cruelest?
(a) December.
(b) October.
(c) May.
(d) April.

5. What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady"?
(a) Smile.
(b) Weep.
(c) Die.
(d) Laugh.

6. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?
(a) Sigh quietly.
(b) Shed a tear.
(c) Run back down.
(d) Ring the bell.

7. At the end of their journey, at what time did the speakers of the "Journey of the Magi" prefer to travel?
(a) Evening.
(b) Afternoon.
(c) Morning.
(d) Night.

8. Who in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" "declines the gambit, shows fatigue"?
(a) The silent man in mocha brown.
(b) The man with heavy eyes.
(c) The person in the Spanish cape.
(d) Sweeney.

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

10. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Slingsby.
(b) Ellicott.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Sokoski.

11. How many people speak in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

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

14. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?
(a) Shredded.
(b) Rolled.
(c) Dingy.
(d) Pressed.

15. What, in the second stanza of "Whispers of Immortality" stares from the sockets of the eyes?
(a) Daffodil bulbs.
(b) Eyeballs.
(c) Skeletal jaguars.
(d) Unfettered souls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lies on the table in the first stanza of "A Cooking Egg"?

2. What two things are described as drifting above in the second stanza of "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

3. At what does the subject of "Animula" grasp?

4. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

5. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?

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