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Note: This quiz covers more than one selection.



1.To what does the speaker in "Sailing to Byzantium" compare an aged man?
A.a dying animal
B.a gold mosaic
C.a tattered coat upon a stick
D.a magnificent monument


2.Who does the speaker in "Sailing to Byzantium" ask to be the singing-masters of his soul?
A.the sages pictured on the walls of the churches
B.old men from the churches in Byzantium
C.Grecian goldsmiths
D.the lords and ladies of Byzantium


3.In "The Second Coming," what has happened to the ceremony of innocence?
A.It is drowned.
B.It is falling apart.
C.It is nonexistent.
D.It is full of intensity.


4.In "The Second Coming," what does the speaker say vexed the twenty centuries of stony sleep?
A.darkness
B.a widening gyre
C.a rocking cradle
D.a blank and pitiless gaze

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