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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator fear disturbs the thing that was planted in a garden?
(a) Mice
(b) Arsenic
(c) Snow
(d) Frost

2. What is the relationship between Lil and Albert?
(a) Loving
(b) Dangerous
(c) Strained
(d) Sterile

3. What had undone many people in the Unreal City?
(a) Death
(b) Religion
(c) Light
(d) Darkness

4. What does the narrator say must be kept from the garden?
(a) The children
(b) The sun
(c) The dog
(d) The elements

5. Who hurt Philomel in a Game of Chess?
(a) Robbers
(b) Her uncle
(c) Her husband
(d) The King

6. How is the carved dolphin described in a Game of Chess?
(a) Glorious
(b) Lovely
(c) Dancing
(d) Sad

7. What is the name of Lil’s youngest child?
(a) Gregory
(b) Alexander
(c) George
(d) Albert

8. What does Albert want from Lil?
(a) Sex
(b) Respect
(c) Marriage
(d) Her money

9. What is Madame Sosostris’ occupation?
(a) Gypsy
(b) Singer
(c) Fortune teller
(d) Tradeswoman

10. In the Burial of the Dead, what author does the poet mirror in his first lines?
(a) Plato
(b) Bronte
(c) Chaucer
(d) Shakespeare

11. Where does the narrator spend his summers?
(a) The Maldahasee
(b) The Gerbertensee
(c) The Sternbergersee
(d) The Tatnoogeese

12. What part of Germany is does the narrator spend his summers in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Berlin
(b) Frankfort
(c) Munich
(d) Hamburg

13. What revives the dull roots in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Fresh air
(b) Spring rain
(c) Nothing
(d) Good soil

14. What words are repeated to Lil in a Game of Chess?
(a) Hurry up please, it’s time
(b) At such a time as this
(c) What is time signify to us
(d) There is no time

15. What negative side effect does Lil experience from the medication?
(a) It keeps her from having children
(b) It ages her
(c) It puts her in pain
(d) It weakens her

Short Answer Questions

1. Who keeps the hours in the Unreal City?

2. Of what does Lil accuse the narrator?

3. What does demobbed mean?

4. Who is buried in the first section of the Burial of the Dead?

5. What insult is given at the end of the Burial of the Dead?

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