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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through III. The Fire Sermon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator do when leaving Lil’s house?
(a) Steals money
(b) Kisses Albert
(c) Bids the children goodnight
(d) Slaps Lil

2. What animal creeps through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A rat
(b) A mouse
(c) A muskrat
(d) A moose

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

4. What are the withered stumps that frustrate the rich woman in a Game of Chess?
(a) Wealth
(b) Her lover
(c) Her age
(d) Time

5. What negative side effect does Lil experience from the medication?
(a) It puts her in pain
(b) It keeps her from having children
(c) It weakens her
(d) It ages her

Short Answer Questions

1. What is planted in the garden?

2. Of what does the narrator tell Lil she should be ashamed?

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

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

5. What does the narrator hear rattling in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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