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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What meal does Lil make when she invites the narrator to diner?
(a) Rack of lamb
(b) Fish and Chips
(c) Kidney Pie
(d) Hot Gammon

2. What is planted in the garden?
(a) A bulb
(b) A box
(c) A corpse
(d) A vase

3. What is the name of Lil’s youngest child?
(a) Albert
(b) Gregory
(c) Alexander
(d) George

4. In the Burial of the Dead, what is not found under the red rock?
(a) A shadow
(b) A space
(c) A life
(d) A hardness

5. How many cupids are carved into the glass found in a Game of Chess?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 2

6. Why does Albert give Lil money?
(a) To buy new teeth
(b) To buy new clothes
(c) To buy new hair
(d) To buy new shoes

7. What gem is used to describe someone’s eye in a Game of Chess?
(a) Sapphires
(b) Emeralds
(c) Amber
(d) Pearls

8. What word is repeated by the man with the rich woman in a Game of Chess?
(a) Breathe
(b) Stop
(c) Think
(d) Nothing

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

10. According to this poet, what is the cruelest month?
(a) June
(b) April
(c) August
(d) July

11. What does Marie do until late in the night?
(a) Pray
(b) Read
(c) Sing
(d) Write

12. In a Game of Chess, how does the rich woman threaten to walk down the street?
(a) Naked
(b) With other men
(c) With her hair down
(d) In servants dress

13. What does the poet say summer does to us?
(a) Encourages us
(b) Leaves us
(c) Baths us
(d) Surprises us

14. Of what does the narrator tell Lil she should be ashamed?
(a) Hiding money
(b) Looking so old
(c) Fearing her husband
(d) Aborting a child

15. How old is Lil?
(a) 41
(b) 21
(c) 31
(d) 51

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Lil accuse the narrator?

2. What repeated word reference Philomel in a Game of Chess?

3. In the Burial of the Dead, what does the narrator say he will show the reader under the red rock?

4. Who give Lil the medication?

5. Why does Lil take the medication?

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