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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sweats out of the river in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Fish
(b) Rainbows of muck
(c) Life and death
(d) Oil and tar

2. Who is with Mrs. Porter when a light shines on her in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Her sister
(b) Her lover
(c) Her mother
(d) Her daughter

3. How long does the Thames run in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Until it freezes over
(b) Until the end of time
(c) Until the sun returns
(d) Until the song is over

4. What does the narrator compare to Phlebas in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Himself
(b) All sailors
(c) Society
(d) The reader

5. Where are bones of the bodies littered on the ground cast in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The bin
(b) The foxes hole
(c) The water
(d) The garret

6. Whose finger sinks into the wet bank in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) An orphan’s
(b) A rock’s
(c) A leaf’s
(d) A blossom’s

7. Where is the animal found creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Across from a graveyard
(b) Behind the gas house
(c) At the shore of a pond
(d) Under the great bridge

8. What type of bird narrates the section about the animal creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Nightingale
(b) King Fisher
(c) Raven
(d) Pelican

9. How does the narrator speak near the Thames?
(a) Loud
(b) False
(c) Long
(d) All of those things listed here

10. Where does the narrator weep at beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Near the Waters of Leman
(b) Near the White Cliffs
(c) Near the Thames
(d) Near the Danube

11. What is Phlebas able to forget when he dies in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) The war
(b) His sins
(c) His profits and losses
(d) His lover

12. What does the merchant not notice about the typist in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) She is in pain
(b) She is with child
(c) She has another lover
(d) She does not want his advances

13. Where does the typist get her food?
(a) Jars
(b) Bins
(c) Tins
(d) Boxes

14. What cries near Phlebas’s body in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Mermaids
(b) The wind
(c) Gulls
(d) Children

15. What is at the narrator’s back in the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The life he leaves behind
(b) The sun
(c) A pile of leaves
(d) A cold blast

Short Answer Questions

1. What language is used after Mrs. Porter is described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

2. What color are the bodies littered on the ground in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. What language does Mr. Eugenides use he speaks to the narrator?

4. What departs at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. How does the Thames run at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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