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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II. A Game of Chess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn’t Lil have any more children than she does now?
(a) She aborts her pregnancies
(b) Her husband is injured
(c) Her husband has been gone
(d) She is too old

2. How is the carved dolphin described in a Game of Chess?
(a) Sad
(b) Lovely
(c) Dancing
(d) Glorious

3. Who is buried in the first section of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Soldiers
(b) Children
(c) Dreams
(d) Jewish refugees

4. What about Madame Sosostris does the narrator say is wicked?
(a) Her hands
(b) Her cards
(c) Her coins
(d) Her eyes

5. In a Game of Chess, what time does the hot water come for the rich woman?
(a) 8:00
(b) 9:00
(c) 10:00
(d) 11:00

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is repeated by the man with the rich woman in a Game of Chess?

2. What is the relationship between Lil and Albert?

3. In the Burial of the Dead, what author does the poet mirror in his first lines?

4. What does the cruelest month breed?

5. Who hurt Philomel in a Game of Chess?

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