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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 is the feeling of the first section of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Hopeful
(b) Confusing
(c) Dark
(d) Cheerful

2. In a Game of Chess, how does the rich woman threaten to walk down the street?
(a) With other men
(b) Naked
(c) With her hair down
(d) In servants dress

3. What does the rich woman complain of in a Game of Chess?
(a) Her joints
(b) The darkness
(c) The coldness
(d) Her nerves

4. What does the narrator fear disturbs the thing that was planted in a garden?
(a) Frost
(b) Mice
(c) Snow
(d) Arsenic

5. What do all the people focus on in the Unreal City?
(a) Their hands
(b) The sky
(c) The people in front of them
(d) Their feet

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is the carved dolphin described in a Game of Chess?

3. What part of Germany is does the narrator spend his summers in the Burial of the Dead?

4. Why doesn’t Lil have any more children than she does now?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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