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

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

3. What kind of death is seen in the Unreal City?
(a) A waking death
(b) A painless death
(c) A symbolic death
(d) All of the above

4. According to this poet, what is the cruelest month?
(a) June
(b) July
(c) August
(d) April

5. What is planted in the garden?
(a) A vase
(b) A bulb
(c) A corpse
(d) A box

Short Answer Questions

1. What had undone many people in the Unreal City?

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

3. What does the poet say keeps us warm in the winter?

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

5. According to the narrator of the Burial of the Dead, what clutches?

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