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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator fear disturbs the thing that was planted in a garden?
(a) Frost
(b) Mice
(c) Arsenic
(d) Snow

2. What is the name of Lil’s youngest child?
(a) George
(b) Albert
(c) Alexander
(d) Gregory

3. What does the cruelest month breed?
(a) Lilacs
(b) Loneliness
(c) Lambs
(d) Love

4. What gem is used to describe someone’s eye in a Game of Chess?
(a) Emeralds
(b) Sapphires
(c) Pearls
(d) Amber

5. What animal symbolizes a lack of meaning?
(a) Dog
(b) Cat
(c) Snake
(d) Wolf

6. In the Burial of the Dead, what does the narrator say he will show the reader under the red rock?
(a) His past
(b) Something amazing
(c) Something different
(d) Your future

7. In a Game of Chess, what time does the hot water come for the rich woman?
(a) 10:00
(b) 8:00
(c) 9:00
(d) 11:00

8. What does the narrator say must be kept from the garden?
(a) The dog
(b) The children
(c) The sun
(d) The elements

9. Whom does the narrator know in the Unreal City?
(a) Stewart
(b) Stephen
(c) Stanley
(d) Stetson

10. What casts a glitter in the room at the beginning in a Game of Chess?
(a) Moonlight
(b) Jewels
(c) Candles
(d) Mirrors

11. Who is called the Son of Man in the Burial of the Dead?
(a) The narrator
(b) All unborn children
(c) Christ
(d) The reader

12. What does the poet say keeps us warm in the winter?
(a) Snow
(b) Fires
(c) Hope
(d) Embraces

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

14. In the Burial of the Dead, what is not found under the red rock?
(a) A shadow
(b) A hardness
(c) A life
(d) A space

15. How old is Lil?
(a) 31
(b) 41
(c) 21
(d) 51

Short Answer Questions

1. What had undone many people in the Unreal City?

2. How many cupids are carved into the glass found in a Game of Chess?

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

4. In the Burial of the Dead, what is the person with the hyacinths called?

5. In the Burial of the Dead, why are German phrases added to the poem?

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