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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. Of what does the narrator tell Lil she should be ashamed?
(a) Looking so old
(b) Hiding money
(c) Aborting a child
(d) Fearing her husband

2. What does the cruelest month mix together?
(a) Beauty and Hatred
(b) Memory and Desire
(c) Love and Death
(d) The Past and the Future

3. What does the narrator say is a natural consequence of marriage?
(a) Sickness
(b) Children
(c) Sex
(d) Abuse

4. Of what does Lil accuse the narrator?
(a) Breaking the law
(b) Cheating on her husband
(c) Sleeping with her husband
(d) Stealing money

5. How many children does Lil have?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 7

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marie do until late in the night?

2. Where does the narrator spend his summers?

3. What does the poet say summer does to us?

4. What does the narrator do when leaving Lil’s house?

5. Who is buried in the first section of the Burial of the Dead?

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