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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Burial of the Dead, what author does the poet mirror in his first lines?
(a) Bronte
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Plato
(d) Chaucer

2. What revives the dull roots in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Nothing
(b) Fresh air
(c) Good soil
(d) Spring rain

3. What do people call Madame Sosostris?
(a) The scariest woman in Europe
(b) The wisest woman in Europe
(c) The strangest woman in Europe
(d) The cleverest woman in Europe

4. What does the rich woman complain of in a Game of Chess?
(a) Her joints
(b) The coldness
(c) Her nerves
(d) The darkness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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) Leave
(d) Declare his love for her

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

15. In the Burial of the Dead, what does the narrator say he will show the reader under the red rock?
(a) His past
(b) Your future
(c) Something amazing
(d) Something different

Short Answer Questions

1. What is planted in the garden?

2. How many cupids are carved into the glass found in a Game of Chess?

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

4. Who is bid farewell to over and over at the end of a Game of Chess?

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

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