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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Where did Phlebas die in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) In a river
(b) At home
(c) At sea
(d) In prison

8. What part of his own body does Tiresias call feminine?
(a) His hands
(b) His feet
(c) His jaw
(d) His breasts

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

10. What picks Phlebas’s bones in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Vultures
(b) Fish
(c) Seagulls
(d) The current

11. What language does Mr. Eugenides use he speaks to the narrator?
(a) French
(b) Greek
(c) English
(d) German

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

13. What does the narrator say humble people expect from him in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Love
(b) Nothing
(c) Brutality
(d) Information

14. What color are the bodies littered on the ground in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Brown
(b) Gray
(c) White
(d) Blue

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator hear behind him Part III, The Fire Sermon?

2. What cries near Phlebas’s body in Part IV, Death by Water?

3. Who loiters near the Thames in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

4. How many times is the word, ‘Twit’ repeated in succession in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. How long does the Thames run in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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