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

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

3. What type of pattern is etched into the glass found in a Game of Chess?
(a) Vines
(b) Birds
(c) Geometric patterns
(d) Flowers

4. How many years is Albert away before returning to Lil in a Game of Chess?
(a) 8
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 2

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Madame Sosostris?

2. Why is Albert away from Lil?

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

4. Where does the narrator spend his summers?

5. In a Game of Chess, what type of perfume does the rich woman own?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Lil’s marriage described in A Game of Chess?

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

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

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

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

6. When does Marie feel most free?

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

8. How does the narrator describe the Unreal City in the Burial of the Dead?

9. What do hyacinths symbolize, and why are they included in the Burial of the Dead?

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

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