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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IV. Death by Water.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poet say summer does to us?
(a) Surprises us
(b) Baths us
(c) Encourages us
(d) Leaves us

2. In the Burial of the Dead, what is found in a handful of dust?
(a) Fear
(b) Love
(c) Beauty
(d) Anger

3. Why does Lil take the medication?
(a) She wants to lose weight
(b) She wants to end a pregnancy
(c) She is bleeding a lot
(d) She is in a lot of pain

4. What war ends shortly before the publication of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) The Franco-Prussian War
(b) World War I
(c) World War II
(d) The Spanish-American War

5. What does the narrator hear behind him Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Screams
(b) Thunder
(c) Wind
(d) Horns

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the repeated words to Lil reference?

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

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

4. What kind of death is seen in the Unreal City?

5. In Part III, The Fire Sermon, what do the departed forget to leave?

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