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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the poet say keeps us warm in the winter?
(a) Hope
(b) Snow
(c) Fires
(d) Embraces

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

4. Who keeps the hours in the Unreal City?
(a) Saint Andrew
(b) Saint Theresa Wanterford
(c) Saint Mary Woolnoth
(d) Saint Anthony

5. In a Game of Chess, what time does the hot water come for the rich woman?
(a) 11:00
(b) 10:00
(c) 8:00
(d) 9:00

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

7. Whom does the narrator know in the Unreal City?
(a) Stetson
(b) Stewart
(c) Stanley
(d) Stephen

8. From where does the narrator know someone in the Unreal City?
(a) A journey
(b) A battle
(c) A class
(d) A congregation

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

10. What author pens the elegant rag spoken in a Game of Chess?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Aristotle
(c) Emerson
(d) Gallagher

11. Of what does Lil accuse the narrator?
(a) Cheating on her husband
(b) Stealing money
(c) Sleeping with her husband
(d) Breaking the law

12. What is Madame Sosostris’ occupation?
(a) Gypsy
(b) Singer
(c) Fortune teller
(d) Tradeswoman

13. What does the narrator call Lil because she is ambivalent about her marriage?
(a) A whore
(b) A heathen
(c) All of the above
(d) A fool

14. What does demobbed mean?
(a) Getting robbed
(b) Losing a fortune
(c) Having an unwed lover
(d) Leaving the army

15. What do the passing seasons in the Burial of the Dead, symbolize?
(a) War
(b) Repetition
(c) Death
(d) Aging

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Lil have?

2. What meal does Lil make when she invites the narrator to diner?

3. What does the narrator do when leaving Lil’s house?

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

5. Who give Lil the medication?

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