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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 Albert want from Lil?
(a) Her money
(b) Respect
(c) Marriage
(d) Sex

2. Who hurt Philomel in a Game of Chess?
(a) Her husband
(b) The King
(c) Her uncle
(d) Robbers

3. What is planted in the garden?
(a) A bulb
(b) A corpse
(c) A box
(d) A vase

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the poet compare the chair in section II of a Game of Chess?

2. What meal does Lil make when she invites the narrator to diner?

3. Why does Lil look so old?

4. What does demobbed mean?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are some tarot cards that appear in the Burial of the Dead, and what do they indicate?

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

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