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

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

3. Who is called the Son of Man in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Christ
(b) The narrator
(c) All unborn children
(d) The reader

4. In the Burial of the Dead, what is the dead tree unable to give the reader?
(a) Wood
(b) Shelter
(c) Shade
(d) Comfort

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does someone postpone in the first part of the Burial of the Dead?

2. In the Burial of the Dead, what is the person with the hyacinths called?

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

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

5. What does the cruelest month breed?

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