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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IV. Death by Water.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is at the narrator’s back in the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The sun
(b) The life he leaves behind
(c) A cold blast
(d) A pile of leaves

2. Whose tent breaks at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The narrator’s
(b) The sky’s
(c) The fox’s
(d) The river’s

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

4. What part of Germany is does the narrator spend his summers in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Frankfort
(b) Berlin
(c) Hamburg
(d) Munich

5. In the Burial of the Dead, what is the dead tree unable to give the reader?
(a) Wood
(b) Shade
(c) Shelter
(d) Comfort

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part III, The Fire Sermon, what do the departed forget to leave?

2. What does someone postpone in the first part of the Burial of the Dead?

3. What insult is given at the end of the Burial of the Dead?

4. What gem is used to describe someone’s eye in a Game of Chess?

5. Whose finger sinks into the wet bank in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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