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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years is Albert away before returning to Lil in a Game of Chess?

2. In a Game of Chess, what does the rich woman beg the man in the room to do?

3. Who is bid farewell to over and over at the end of a Game of Chess?

4. What insult is given at the end of the Burial of the Dead?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the main feeling of the Burial of the Dead?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What has Lil been given money for in A Game of Chess?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Diversity and discrimination are two major and related themes in this poem. Where do these themes appear, and how do they work together to propel the plot of the poem?

Essay Topic 2

This poem include strong religious ideas. What are some of these ideas and how are they presented?

Essay Topic 3

Thunder is a very symbolic figure in this poem. Where does it appear, and what does it mean to the rest of the poem?

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