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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through V. What the Thunder Said.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is the belly of the animal that creeps through the vegetation described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Bulging
(b) Strange
(c) Slimy
(d) Bloody

3. What is seen swarming in Part V, What the Thunder Said?
(a) Hooded images
(b) Memories
(c) Birds
(d) Planes

4. What meal does Lil make when she invites the narrator to diner?
(a) Kidney Pie
(b) Fish and Chips
(c) Rack of lamb
(d) Hot Gammon

5. What is the status of the were living in Part V, What the Thunder Said?
(a) They are dying
(b) They are sleeping
(c) They are alive again
(d) They are dead

Short Answer Questions

1. What is at the narrator’s back in the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

2. What sweats out of the river in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. How does the narrator speak near the Thames?

4. What is planted in the garden?

5. What makes it impossible for the narrator to hear all the things he misses in Part V, What the Thunder Said?

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