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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. What author pens the elegant rag spoken in a Game of Chess?
(a) Gallagher
(b) Aristotle
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Emerson

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

3. In the Burial of the Dead, what do hyacinths symbolize?
(a) Friendship
(b) Love
(c) Spring
(d) Resurrection

4. What do the passing seasons in the Burial of the Dead, symbolize?
(a) War
(b) Death
(c) Repetition
(d) Aging

5. Whom does the narrator know in the Unreal City?
(a) Stetson
(b) Stephen
(c) Stewart
(d) Stanley

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the narrator tell Lil she should be ashamed?

2. What does the poet say summer does to us?

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

4. What does the narrator call Lil because she is ambivalent about her marriage?

5. What is wrong with Madame Sosostris?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stroke of the clock is mentioned in Burial of the Dead, and why?

2. What is called no friend to man in the Burial of the Dead, and why do you think that is?

3. What is buried in a garden, and what does this symbolize?

4. According to the narrator, what is the cruelest month and why?

5. What are some tarot cards that appear in the Burial of the Dead, and what do they indicate?

6. What is the main feeling of the Burial of the Dead?

7. What is the main complaint of the rich woman in A Game of Chess?

8. When does Marie feel most free?

9. What does the narrator censure Lil over in A Game of Chess?

10. Why is Mylae mentioned in Burial of the Dead?

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