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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. What reverberates in Part V, What the Thunder Said?
(a) Thunder
(b) Engines
(c) Bombs
(d) Crowds

2. In the Burial of the Dead, what is the person with the hyacinths called?
(a) Hyacinth Girl
(b) The Teacher
(c) The Man
(d) Sweetheart

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

4. What does the narrator fear disturbs the thing that was planted in a garden?
(a) Mice
(b) Snow
(c) Arsenic
(d) Frost

5. What does the narrator say humble people expect from him in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Brutality
(b) Nothing
(c) Information
(d) Love

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator weep at beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

2. What child’s rhyme is included near the end of the poem?

3. What do all the people focus on in the Unreal City?

4. What insect does the narrator miss hearing in Part V, What the Thunder Said?

5. How is the third person described as moving in Part V, What the Thunder Said?

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