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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II. A Game of Chess.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the narrator supposed to fear after talking with Madame Sosostris?
(a) His family
(b) Death by water
(c) The innkeeper
(d) The plague

3. What do the passing seasons in the Burial of the Dead, symbolize?
(a) Death
(b) War
(c) Aging
(d) Repetition

4. According to the narrator of the Burial of the Dead, what clutches?
(a) Roots
(b) Branches
(c) Thorns
(d) Memories

5. What part of Germany is does the narrator spend his summers in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Hamburg
(b) Munich
(c) Berlin
(d) Frankfort

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does demobbed mean?

3. Why does Albert give Lil money?

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

5. In the Burial of the Dead, what is found in a handful of dust?

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