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

2. What is the relationship between Lil and Albert?
(a) Strained
(b) Dangerous
(c) Sterile
(d) Loving

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

4. Of what does the narrator tell Lil she should be ashamed?
(a) Fearing her husband
(b) Looking so old
(c) Aborting a child
(d) Hiding money

5. Why does Albert give Lil money?
(a) To buy new shoes
(b) To buy new teeth
(c) To buy new clothes
(d) To buy new hair

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator supposed to fear after talking with Madame Sosostris?

3. Why does Lil look so old?

4. What does the cruelest month mix together?

5. In the Burial of the Dead, what frightens Marie?

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