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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 had undone many people in the Unreal City?
(a) Darkness
(b) Death
(c) Religion
(d) Light

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

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

4. What does the poet say keeps us warm in the winter?
(a) Hope
(b) Snow
(c) Fires
(d) Embraces

5. Who keeps the hours in the Unreal City?
(a) Saint Andrew
(b) Saint Anthony
(c) Saint Mary Woolnoth
(d) Saint Theresa Wanterford

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say is a natural consequence of marriage?

3. What does the narrator fear disturbs the thing that was planted in a garden?

4. Why does Lil take the medication?

5. What about Madame Sosostris does the narrator say is wicked?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What has altered Lil’s health in A Game of Chess?

4. Who is Albert and what is his role in A Game of Chess?

5. How does the narrator describe the winter season in the Burial of the Dead?

6. How is the setting of the first part of A Game of Chess described?

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

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

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

10. Why are German statements included in the Burial of the Dead?

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