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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through V. What the Thunder Said.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn’t Lil have any more children than she does now?
(a) She aborts her pregnancies
(b) She is too old
(c) Her husband has been gone
(d) Her husband is injured

2. What time is important in the Unreal City?
(a) The strike of 7
(b) The strike of 9
(c) The strike of 12
(d) The strike of 8

3. What does the rich woman wait for at the end of her section in a Game of Chess?
(a) The war to end
(b) Her lover to die
(c) The clock to chime
(d) A knock on the door

4. What does the rich woman complain of in a Game of Chess?
(a) The coldness
(b) The darkness
(c) Her nerves
(d) Her joints

5. What is described as obedient at the end of the poem?
(a) The wind
(b) The reader’s heart
(c) The church goers
(d) The children

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people call Madame Sosostris?

2. What do the repeated words to Lil reference?

3. What type of lamentation is heard in the air in Part V, What the Thunder Said?

4. What language does Mr. Eugenides use he speaks to the narrator?

5. Who is described as rudely forced in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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