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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What about Madame Sosostris does the narrator say is wicked?
(a) Her coins
(b) Her cards
(c) Her hands
(d) Her eyes

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

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

5. What do the passing seasons in the Burial of the Dead, symbolize?
(a) Repetition
(b) Death
(c) War
(d) Aging

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the narrator know someone in the Unreal City?

2. In a Game of Chess, what time does the hot water come for the rich woman?

3. What does Marie do until late in the night?

4. What language is used at the end the Burial of the Dead?

5. What does the rich woman complain of in a Game of Chess?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the rich woman and her companion do together, and what does this activity mean?

2. What does the narrator censure Lil over in A Game of Chess?

3. What happens to the narrator when he mentions hyacinths?

4. What words are repeated to Lil in A Game of Chess, and what do they mean?

5. What is the main feeling of the Burial of the Dead?

6. What is the significance of the title Burial of the Dead?

7. What is the relationship between Lil and the narrator in A Game of Chess?

8. According to the narrator, what is the cruelest month and why?

9. What does the rich woman beg of her companion in A Game of Chess?

10. What is called no friend to man in the Burial of the Dead, and why do you think that is?

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