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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. What meal does Lil make when she invites the narrator to diner?
(a) Kidney Pie
(b) Hot Gammon
(c) Rack of lamb
(d) Fish and Chips

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

3. Who is called the Son of Man in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) The narrator
(b) The reader
(c) All unborn children
(d) Christ

4. From where does the narrator know someone in the Unreal City?
(a) A battle
(b) A class
(c) A journey
(d) A congregation

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to this poet, what is the cruelest month?

2. What does the rich woman complain of in a Game of Chess?

3. In the Burial of the Dead, what frightens Marie?

4. To what does the poet compare the chair in section II of a Game of Chess?

5. In the Burial of the Dead, what is drunk at Hofgarten?

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