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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What creates fiery points around the rich woman in a Game of Chess?
(a) Her jewels
(b) Her hair
(c) Her hair
(d) Her bonnet

2. What color is the fog in the Unreal City?
(a) Silver
(b) Brown
(c) Black
(d) White

3. What language is used at the end the Burial of the Dead?
(a) English
(b) French
(c) German
(d) Spanish

4. What does the cruelest month breed?
(a) Love
(b) Loneliness
(c) Lilacs
(d) Lambs

5. Why is Albert away from Lil?
(a) He is helping his dying mother
(b) He is in the Army
(c) He is in prison
(d) He is making his fortune

6. Who give Lil the medication?
(a) Her priest
(b) Her friend
(c) Her husband
(d) Her chemist

7. In the Burial of the Dead, when does the narrator expect something in a garden to bloom?
(a) Fall
(b) Spring
(c) Winter
(d) Summer

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

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

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

11. In a Game of Chess, what does the rich woman beg the man in the room to do?
(a) Speak with her
(b) Kiss her
(c) Declare his love for her
(d) Leave

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

13. Who is called the Son of Man in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) The reader
(b) Christ
(c) All unborn children
(d) The narrator

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is buried in the first section of the Burial of the Dead?

2. What is the feeling of the first section of the Burial of the Dead?

3. In a Game of Chess, how does the rich woman threaten to walk down the street?

4. In the Burial of the Dead, what frightens Marie?

5. Where does the narrator spend his summers?

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