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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II. A Game of Chess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to this poet, what is the cruelest month?
(a) April
(b) August
(c) July
(d) June

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

3. What does the rich woman wait for at the end of her section in a Game of Chess?
(a) A knock on the door
(b) Her lover to die
(c) The war to end
(d) The clock to chime

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

5. What war ends shortly before the publication of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) World War I
(b) The Franco-Prussian War
(c) World War II
(d) The Spanish-American War

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Burial of the Dead, what is not found under the red rock?

2. How many children does Lil have?

3. What author pens the elegant rag spoken in a Game of Chess?

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

5. What does the poet say keeps us warm in the winter?

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