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

2. What animal symbolizes a lack of meaning?
(a) Cat
(b) Snake
(c) Wolf
(d) Dog

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

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

5. Who give Lil the medication?
(a) Her friend
(b) Her husband
(c) Her priest
(d) Her chemist

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people call Madame Sosostris?

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

3. What do the passing seasons in the Burial of the Dead, symbolize?

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

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

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