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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are the withered stumps that frustrate the rich woman in a Game of Chess?
(a) Wealth
(b) Her age
(c) Time
(d) Her lover

4. What is the feeling of the first section of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Hopeful
(b) Dark
(c) Cheerful
(d) Confusing

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

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

7. What do all the people focus on in the Unreal City?
(a) Their feet
(b) The people in front of them
(c) The sky
(d) Their hands

8. What war ends shortly before the publication of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) World War II
(b) World War I
(c) The Franco-Prussian War
(d) The Spanish-American War

9. What is the narrator supposed to fear after talking with Madame Sosostris?
(a) The innkeeper
(b) The plague
(c) His family
(d) Death by water

10. Who hurt Philomel in a Game of Chess?
(a) Her uncle
(b) Robbers
(c) The King
(d) Her husband

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

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

13. In the Burial of the Dead, why are German phrases added to the poem?
(a) To symbolize the war
(b) To fit the rhyme scheme
(c) To confuse the reader
(d) To paint a vivid picture

14. In a Game of Chess, what type of perfume does the rich woman own?
(a) Natural
(b) Antique
(c) Synthetic
(d) Floral

15. What does the cruelest month mix together?
(a) Beauty and Hatred
(b) Memory and Desire
(c) The Past and the Future
(d) Love and Death

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many children does Lil have?

4. Who is called the Son of Man in the Burial of the Dead?

5. Why does Lil take the medication?

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