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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the rich woman wait for at the end of her section in a Game of Chess?
(a) The clock to chime
(b) The war to end
(c) A knock on the door
(d) Her lover to die

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

3. What author pens the elegant rag spoken in a Game of Chess?
(a) Emerson
(b) Aristotle
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Gallagher

4. In a Game of Chess, how does the rich woman threaten to walk down the street?
(a) With other men
(b) In servants dress
(c) With her hair down
(d) Naked

5. What are the withered stumps that frustrate the rich woman in a Game of Chess?
(a) Time
(b) Wealth
(c) Her age
(d) Her lover

6. What meal does Lil make when she invites the narrator to diner?
(a) Hot Gammon
(b) Kidney Pie
(c) Rack of lamb
(d) Fish and Chips

7. What negative side effect does Lil experience from the medication?
(a) It ages her
(b) It puts her in pain
(c) It keeps her from having children
(d) It weakens her

8. In the Burial of the Dead, what is the dead tree unable to give the reader?
(a) Shade
(b) Shelter
(c) Wood
(d) Comfort

9. Who is bid farewell to over and over at the end of a Game of Chess?
(a) Sweet friends
(b) All of those listed here
(c) Sweet ladies
(d) Sweet children

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

11. From where does the narrator know someone in the Unreal City?
(a) A class
(b) A journey
(c) A battle
(d) A congregation

12. What does the cruelest month mix together?
(a) The Past and the Future
(b) Beauty and Hatred
(c) Memory and Desire
(d) Love and Death

13. In a Game of Chess, what type of perfume does the rich woman own?
(a) Antique
(b) Natural
(c) Synthetic
(d) Floral

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

15. What does demobbed mean?
(a) Leaving the army
(b) Losing a fortune
(c) Having an unwed lover
(d) Getting robbed

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lil look so old?

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

3. Where does the narrator spend his summers?

4. What revives the dull roots in the Burial of the Dead?

5. What does the narrator say must be kept from the garden?

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