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

2. In the Burial of the Dead, what is not found under the red rock?
(a) A space
(b) A hardness
(c) A shadow
(d) A life

3. What does the poet say summer does to us?
(a) Surprises us
(b) Baths us
(c) Leaves us
(d) Encourages us

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are repeated to Lil in a Game of Chess?

2. Of what does the narrator tell Lil she should be ashamed?

3. What does the poet say keeps us warm in the winter?

4. Who hurt Philomel in a Game of Chess?

5. What does the narrator say must be kept from the garden?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Madame Sosostris, and how does the narrator describe her?

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

3. How does the narrator describe the summer season in the Burial of the Dead?

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

5. Why is Mylae mentioned in Burial of the Dead?

6. What is the significance of the title of A Game of Chess?

7. What is the main complaint of the rich woman in A Game of Chess?

8. What stroke of the clock is mentioned in Burial of the Dead, and why?

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

10. How does the second section A Game of Chess end, and what does this ending signify?

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