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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through V. What the Thunder Said.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal creeps through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A muskrat
(b) A moose
(c) A rat
(d) A mouse

2. What negative side effect does Lil experience from the medication?
(a) It puts her in pain
(b) It weakens her
(c) It keeps her from having children
(d) It ages her

3. To what does the poet compare the chair in section II of a Game of Chess?
(a) A throne
(b) A vault
(c) A gallows
(d) A stock

4. Whom does the third person symbolize in Part V, What the Thunder Said?
(a) The spirit
(b) The chancellor
(c) The virgin
(d) Christ

5. Why does Lil take the medication?
(a) She wants to lose weight
(b) She wants to end a pregnancy
(c) She is bleeding a lot
(d) She is in a lot of pain

Short Answer Questions

1. From where is Mr. Eugenides?

2. What is the narrator supposed to fear after talking with Madame Sosostris?

3. What about Madame Sosostris does the narrator say is wicked?

4. What type of lamentation is heard in the air in Part V, What the Thunder Said?

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

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