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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What animal symbolizes a lack of meaning?
(a) Dog
(b) Snake
(c) Wolf
(d) Cat
2. What is the feeling of the first section of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Confusing
(b) Hopeful
(c) Cheerful
(d) Dark
3. How old is Lil?
(a) 51
(b) 31
(c) 21
(d) 41
4. What kind of death is seen in the Unreal City?
(a) A symbolic death
(b) A waking death
(c) All of the above
(d) A painless death
5. What are the withered stumps that frustrate the rich woman in a Game of Chess?
(a) Her age
(b) Time
(c) Her lover
(d) Wealth
6. What revives the dull roots in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) Fresh air
(b) Nothing
(c) Good soil
(d) Spring rain
7. What is the name of Lil’s youngest child?
(a) George
(b) Albert
(c) Alexander
(d) Gregory
8. Of what does the narrator tell Lil she should be ashamed?
(a) Fearing her husband
(b) Looking so old
(c) Hiding money
(d) Aborting a child
9. To what does the poet compare the chair in section II of a Game of Chess?
(a) A stock
(b) A gallows
(c) A throne
(d) A vault
10. What type of cases are displayed at the beginning of in a Game of Chess?
(a) Iron
(b) Satin
(c) Steel
(d) Linen
11. Where does the narrator spend his summers?
(a) The Maldahasee
(b) The Sternbergersee
(c) The Gerbertensee
(d) The Tatnoogeese
12. What author pens the elegant rag spoken in a Game of Chess?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Gallagher
(c) Emerson
(d) Aristotle
13. What do people call Madame Sosostris?
(a) The cleverest woman in Europe
(b) The scariest woman in Europe
(c) The strangest woman in Europe
(d) The wisest woman in Europe
14. What do the repeated words to Lil reference?
(a) The changing seasons
(b) Being pregnant about to give birth
(c) Last call at the bar
(d) Aging and loss of beauty
15. Who hurt Philomel in a Game of Chess?
(a) The King
(b) Robbers
(c) Her uncle
(d) Her husband
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the poet say summer does to us?
2. What does Albert want from Lil?
3. Who keeps the hours in the Unreal City?
4. What does the cruelest month breed?
5. In a Game of Chess, what does the rich woman beg the man in the room to do?
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