Canto VII Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Canto VII? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. At different times, Pound envisions beauty as a woman named


Eleanor
Nicea
Ione
Eleanor, Nicea, and Ione
Q. Toward the end of Canto VII, what kind of woman has "gone cheeks"?


Dancing woman
Singing woman
Writing woman
Starving woman
Q. Along with Nicea, the beautiful woman, who else has "being" according to Pound?


The old shells of men
Pound himself
The politician
The saint
Q. According to Pound, what immortal sea nymph might be dead to the modern world?


Eleanor
Diana
Rebecca
Tyro
Q. Which Carthaginian queen is "choked up with sobs" for her dead husband, Sicheus?


Rebecca
Ruth
Dido
Alexandria