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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 does Mr. Eugenides have in his pocket?
(a) Rocks
(b) Currants
(c) Coins
(d) Tacks

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

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

4. What color is the land as the wind crosses it in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Brown
(b) Green
(c) Black
(d) Red

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What season is the animal is seen creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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

3. What does the narrator hear rattling in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

4. Where is the animal found creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Tiresias described in The Fire Sermon?

2. Why is Mr. Eugenides included in The Fire Sermon?

3. Who is Mr. Eugenides in The Fire Sermon?

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

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

6. What is the significance of the title Death by Water?

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

8. What is the significance of the title of The Fire Sermon?

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

10. How is Mrs. Porter described in The Fire Sermon?

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