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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 does someone postpone in the first part of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Going to school
(b) Traveling home
(c) Getting married
(d) Joining the war

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

3. What is the narrator supposed to fear after talking with Madame Sosostris?
(a) Death by water
(b) The plague
(c) The innkeeper
(d) His family

4. Why doesn’t Lil have any more children than she does now?
(a) She is too old
(b) Her husband has been gone
(c) Her husband is injured
(d) She aborts her pregnancies

5. How many years is Albert away before returning to Lil in a Game of Chess?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 8
(d) 6

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the narrator know someone in the Unreal City?

2. What does the cruelest month mix together?

3. How many branches are on the candelabra found in a Game of Chess?

4. Who is bid farewell to over and over at the end of a Game of Chess?

5. How many cupids are carved into the glass found in a Game of Chess?

Short Essay Questions

1. What words are repeated to Lil in A Game of Chess, and what do they mean?

2. What is the significance of the perfumes in A Game of Chess?

3. What is the significance of the title Burial of the Dead?

4. How does the narrator describe the Unreal City in the Burial of the Dead?

5. What do the rich woman and her companion do together, and what does this activity mean?

6. Why are German statements included in the Burial of the Dead?

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

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

9. What is the significance of the title of A Game of Chess?

10. How does the narrator describe the winter season in the Burial of the Dead?

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