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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lil look so old?
(a) She takes strange medication
(b) She has worked her whole life
(c) She is very sick
(d) She has children

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

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

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

5. What type of cases are displayed at the beginning of in a Game of Chess?
(a) Satin
(b) Linen
(c) Iron
(d) Steel

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

7. What casts a glitter in the room at the beginning in a Game of Chess?
(a) Jewels
(b) Candles
(c) Mirrors
(d) Moonlight

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

9. In the Burial of the Dead, what is drunk at Hofgarten?
(a) Coffee
(b) Cider
(c) Wine
(d) Whiskey

10. In the Burial of the Dead, what God shows up in the tarot cards?
(a) The God of Love
(b) The God of Fertility
(c) The God of War
(d) The God of Wine

11. In the Burial of the Dead, what do hyacinths symbolize?
(a) Spring
(b) Love
(c) Friendship
(d) Resurrection

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

13. To what does the poet compare the chair in section II of a Game of Chess?
(a) A gallows
(b) A throne
(c) A stock
(d) A vault

14. What type of pattern is etched into the glass found in a Game of Chess?
(a) Flowers
(b) Birds
(c) Vines
(d) Geometric patterns

15. What kind of death is seen in the Unreal City?
(a) A painless death
(b) All of the above
(c) A waking death
(d) A symbolic death

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the carved dolphin described in a Game of Chess?

2. Why does Albert give Lil money?

3. What does the cruelest month breed?

4. What about Madame Sosostris does the narrator say is wicked?

5. Why does Lil take the medication?

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