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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of Germany is does the narrator spend his summers in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Munich
(b) Hamburg
(c) Frankfort
(d) Berlin

2. What time is important in the Unreal City?
(a) The strike of 8
(b) The strike of 7
(c) The strike of 12
(d) The strike of 9

3. What does Albert want from Lil?
(a) Sex
(b) Respect
(c) Her money
(d) Marriage

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

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

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

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

8. What does the rich woman wait for at the end of her section in a Game of Chess?
(a) Her lover to die
(b) The clock to chime
(c) The war to end
(d) A knock on the door

9. In the Burial of the Dead, what is found in a handful of dust?
(a) Beauty
(b) Love
(c) Anger
(d) Fear

10. Why does Lil take the medication?
(a) She is in a lot of pain
(b) She is bleeding a lot
(c) She wants to lose weight
(d) She wants to end a pregnancy

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

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

13. What does someone postpone in the first part of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Going to school
(b) Joining the war
(c) Traveling home
(d) Getting married

14. What does the narrator warn Lil will happen if she does not give Albert what he wants?
(a) He will find it elsewhere
(b) He will beat her
(c) He will leave her
(d) He will take it if she does not give it

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Lil have?

2. Where does the narrator spend his summers?

3. What type of pattern is etched into the glass found in a Game of Chess?

4. According to the narrator of the Burial of the Dead, what clutches?

5. What insult is given at the end of the Burial of the Dead?

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