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

2. What creates fiery points around the rich woman in a Game of Chess?
(a) Her bonnet
(b) Her hair
(c) Her hair
(d) Her jewels

3. Who give Lil the medication?
(a) Her husband
(b) Her chemist
(c) Her friend
(d) Her priest

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator compare to Phlebas in Part IV, Death by Water?

2. Whose tent breaks at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. In the Burial of the Dead, what does the narrator say he will show the reader under the red rock?

4. What do all the people focus on in the Unreal City?

5. Who is described as rudely forced in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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