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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. What is Albert’s occupation?
(a) Salesman
(b) Soldier
(c) Blacksmith
(d) Farmer

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

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

4. What do the repeated words to Lil reference?
(a) Aging and loss of beauty
(b) The changing seasons
(c) Being pregnant about to give birth
(d) Last call at the bar

5. In the Burial of the Dead, what God shows up in the tarot cards?
(a) The God of Wine
(b) The God of Love
(c) The God of Fertility
(d) The God of War

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rich woman complain of in a Game of Chess?

2. What does the cruelest month breed?

3. Who hurt Philomel in a Game of Chess?

4. Why doesn’t Lil have any more children than she does now?

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

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