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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is said to be on the bed in "Sweeney Erect", curving backward and clutching at her sides?
(a) The lady of the corridor.
(b) Doris.
(c) Mrs. Turner.
(d) The epileptic.

2. At what time does "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" begin?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Noon.
(c) Four in the morning.
(d) Three in the afternoon.

3. In the fragrant brilliance of what does the subject of "Animula" take pleasure?
(a) The lapping waters of the river.
(b) The flickering candle.
(c) The Christmas tree.
(d) The shine and jingle of a set of keys.

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

5. What does the speaker say unnatural vices are fathered by in "Gerontion"?
(a) Our heroism.
(b) Our virtues.
(c) Oor impudent crimes.
(d) Our reconsidered passion.

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

7. To whom is the last line of "Ash Wednesday" addressed?
(a) God.
(b) Satan.
(c) Mary.
(d) The poet.

8. How many servants did "Aunt Helen" have?
(a) Zero.
(b) Five.
(c) Nine.
(d) Four.

9. Who is the "still unspeaking and unspoken Word" in "A Song for Simeon"?
(a) Israel.
(b) The Servant.
(c) The Infant.
(d) The Foreigner.

10. In "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service", the masters of what sort of schools are considered controversial and polymath?
(a) Ancient.
(b) Modern.
(c) Popular.
(d) Subtle.

11. In the second part of the "Preludes", the speaker says that the morning comes to consciousness with faint smells of what?
(a) Wine.
(b) Beer.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Smoke.

12. The speaker of the "Preludes" has a notion of something infinitely what?
(a) Vast and deep.
(b) Gentile and suffering.
(c) Free and living.
(d) Patient and loving.

13. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?
(a) A chair.
(b) A broadway marquee.
(c) An automobile.
(d) A table.

14. What, according to the end of Part V of "The Hollow Men", is the way the world ends?
(a) In dazzling silence.
(b) With a whimper.
(c) With a bang.
(d) Under the shadow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?

2. Of whose "damp souls" is the speaker of "Morning at the Window" aware?

3. How does Prufrock say he shall wear the bottoms of his trousers?

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

5. The "voice" in the second part of "Portrait of a Lady" says that her auditor, the poem's speaker, has no what?

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