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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What season is the animal is seen creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Fall
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) Spring

4. From where is Mr. Eugenides?
(a) Surrey
(b) Smyrna
(c) Sussett
(d) Stanford

5. What color is the hour when Tiresias is watching?
(a) Coral
(b) Pink
(c) Indigo
(d) Violet

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Phlebas die in Part IV, Death by Water?

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

3. What picks Phlebas’s bones in Part IV, Death by Water?

4. Who is with Mrs. Porter when a light shines on her in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. Whose finger sinks into the wet bank in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Phlebas in Death by Water?

2. What does the river mentioned at the beginning of The Fire Sermon symbolize?

3. In The Fire Sermon, what does Richmond, promise and how does the narrator respond to this?

4. What does Tiresias witness in The Fire Sermon?

5. How does The Fire Sermon end, and what does it mean?

6. In The Fire Sermon, what does the typist do when she comes home?

7. How is Tiresias described in The Fire Sermon?

8. What is the main message of this section of The Fire Sermon?

9. Why are Elizabeth and Leicester mentioned in The Fire Sermon, what?

10. What is the main idea of the last section of Death by Water?

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