61. Those oppressive Cathedral Tunes reflect the poem’s (“There is a certain slant of Light”) theme of
A. isolation
B. mortality
C. immortality
D. versions of reality
✅ The correct answer is option A.
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62. What is St. Gauden’s relief made of in “For the Union Dead?”?
A. stone
B. copper
C. marble
D. bronze
✅ The correct answer is option D.
63. Who is the blue-eyed boy in E.E. Cummings’ poem ‘Buffalo Bill’s/defunct’?
A. buffalo bill
B. mr. death
C. e.e. cummings
D. e.e. cummings son
✅ The correct answer is option A.
64. Who is the “The Admiral himself” described in the poem “Passage to India”?
A. marco polo
B. alexander
C. columbus
D. tamerlane
✅ The correct answer is option C.
65. What desert does Lowell reference in the first stanza in “For the Union Dead?”
A. sonoran
B. mojave
C. sahara
D. gobi
✅ The correct answer is option C.
66. What are the wenches doing in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”?
A. wrapping up the body
B. taking care of the boys
C. complaining
D. hanging around
✅ The correct answer is option D.
67. Opening stanza of “Passage to India” celebrates which of the following great engineering achievements?
A. the laying of the transatlantic undersea cable
B. the joining of the union pacific and central pacific railroads at utah
C. invention of steam engine
D. the opening of the suez canal
✅ The correct answer is option D.
68. What does Colonel Shaw wait for at the end of the poem “For the Union Dead?”
A. a greyhounds gentle tautness
B. a parking spot
C. an end to violence
D. the blessed break
✅ The correct answer is option D.
69. What part of the woman’s body might remain visible in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”?
A. her wrinkled hands
B. her closed eyes
C. her stringy hair
D. her horny feet
✅ The correct answer is option D.
70. What does Colonel Shaw’s father want in “For the Union Dead?”
A. a better monument
B. the ditch
C. nothing
D. his sons weapon
✅ The correct answer is option B.