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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through I. The Burial of the Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend his summers?
(a) The Tatnoogeese
(b) The Maldahasee
(c) The Sternbergersee
(d) The Gerbertensee

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

3. In the Burial of the Dead, what is not found under the red rock?
(a) A hardness
(b) A space
(c) A life
(d) A shadow

4. Whom does the narrator know in the Unreal City?
(a) Stewart
(b) Stetson
(c) Stephen
(d) Stanley

5. What does the cruelest month breed?
(a) Loneliness
(b) Lilacs
(c) Love
(d) Lambs

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What time is important in the Unreal City?

3. What revives the dull roots in the Burial of the Dead?

4. What is the feeling of the first section of the Burial of the Dead?

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

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