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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 narrator say is a natural consequence of marriage?
(a) Sex
(b) Sickness
(c) Children
(d) Abuse

2. What departs at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The light
(b) The nymphs
(c) The summer
(d) The love

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

4. Who hurt Philomel in a Game of Chess?
(a) The King
(b) Her husband
(c) Robbers
(d) Her uncle

5. What animal creeps through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A muskrat
(b) A moose
(c) A mouse
(d) A rat

Short Answer Questions

1. What repeated word reference Philomel in a Game of Chess?

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

3. What is Phlebas able to forget when he dies in Part IV, Death by Water?

4. What type of bird narrates the section about the animal creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. What does someone postpone in the first part of the Burial of the Dead?

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