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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 is described as obedient at the end of the poem?
(a) The wind
(b) The church goers
(c) The reader’s heart
(d) The children

2. What does the narrator say is a natural consequence of marriage?
(a) Abuse
(b) Sex
(c) Children
(d) Sickness

3. Who is bid farewell to over and over at the end of a Game of Chess?
(a) Sweet friends
(b) All of those listed here
(c) Sweet children
(d) Sweet ladies

4. What is seen swarming in Part V, What the Thunder Said?
(a) Planes
(b) Hooded images
(c) Birds
(d) Memories

5. What does the poet say keeps us warm in the winter?
(a) Hope
(b) Embraces
(c) Snow
(d) Fires

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between the rich woman and her lover?

2. What is the status of the were living in Part V, What the Thunder Said?

3. What creates fiery points around the rich woman in a Game of Chess?

4. What picks Phlebas’s bones in Part IV, Death by Water?

5. In the Burial of the Dead, what is the dead tree unable to give the reader?

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