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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?
(a) March.
(b) July.
(c) October.
(d) December.

2. Whom does the speaker claim is inane in "Conversation Galante"?
(a) Eamon Rood.
(b) Prester John.
(c) The woman.
(d) Himself.

3. Which two "guardians of the faith" kept watch upon the shelves?
(a) Alfred and Omar.
(b) Alighieri and Spenser.
(c) Matthew and Waldo.
(d) Virgil and Homer.

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

5. Where are "they" rattling breakfast plates in "Morning at the Window"?
(a) Oaken tables.
(b) Dining halls.
(c) Ancient cupboards.
(d) Basement kitchens.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what will the speaker of "A Song for Simeon" children's children flee?

2. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?

3. Of what school is the painter who is described in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?

4. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?

5. What does the hippopotamus do at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone of the speaker in "Morning at the Window" and why?

2. Why is Sweeney uncomfortable in "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"?

3. What is the relationship between the speaker and his interlocutor in "Portrait of a Lady"?

4. What does the reception of the viaticum in "Animula" do for the soul?

5. What sort of people are the "nightingales" among whom Sweeney cavorts in "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"?

6. What is implied by stating in "The Hippopotamus" that the "True Church need never stir / To gather in its dividends"?

7. What does the "Boston Evening Transcript" seem to symbolize in the poem of the same name?

8. How has Simeon passed his life, as described in "A Song for Simeon"?

9. What happened to Phlebas the Phoenician, as described in Part IV of "The Waste Land"?

10. What is the meaning of the phrase in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" , "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"?

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