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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through I. The Burial of the Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had undone many people in the Unreal City?
(a) Religion
(b) Darkness
(c) Light
(d) Death

2. To what does the poet compare the chair in section II of a Game of Chess?
(a) A gallows
(b) A stock
(c) A vault
(d) A throne

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

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

5. Who is buried in the first section of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Dreams
(b) Soldiers
(c) Jewish refugees
(d) Children

Short Answer Questions

1. According to this poet, what is the cruelest month?

2. What color is the fog in the Unreal City?

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

4. In the Burial of the Dead, when does the narrator expect something in a garden to bloom?

5. Who keeps the hours in the Unreal City?

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