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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 do people call Madame Sosostris?
(a) The cleverest woman in Europe
(b) The scariest woman in Europe
(c) The strangest woman in Europe
(d) The wisest woman in Europe

2. Who is bid farewell to over and over at the end of a Game of Chess?
(a) Sweet ladies
(b) All of those listed here
(c) Sweet friends
(d) Sweet children

3. What does the merchant not notice about the typist in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) She is with child
(b) She has another lover
(c) She is in pain
(d) She does not want his advances

4. What shines on Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The search light
(b) The sun
(c) The moon
(d) The stars

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the poet compare the chair in section II of a Game of Chess?

2. Who is called the Son of Man in the Burial of the Dead?

3. What is at the narrator’s back in the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

4. What war ends shortly before the publication of the Burial of the Dead?

5. Who loiters near the Thames in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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