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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the narrator hear behind him Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Thunder
(b) Horns
(c) Screams
(d) Wind
2. What instrument does the narrator hear while walking along Lower Thames Street?
(a) Harpsichord
(b) Lute
(c) Harmonica
(d) Mandolin
3. In Part III, The Fire Sermon, what do the departed forget to leave?
(a) Their dues
(b) Their luggage
(c) Their addresses
(d) Their intentions
4. How long does the Thames run in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Until the end of time
(b) Until the sun returns
(c) Until the song is over
(d) Until it freezes over
5. What is Phlebas able to forget when he dies in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) His sins
(b) The war
(c) His lover
(d) His profits and losses
6. From where is Mr. Eugenides?
(a) Sussett
(b) Smyrna
(c) Stanford
(d) Surrey
7. What type of bird narrates the section about the animal creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Raven
(b) Nightingale
(c) King Fisher
(d) Pelican
8. What does the narrator hear rattling in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Coins
(b) Books
(c) Bones
(d) Leaves
9. What picks Phlebas’s bones in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Seagulls
(b) Fish
(c) Vultures
(d) The current
10. What color are the bodies littered on the ground in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Brown
(b) Gray
(c) White
(d) Blue
11. How is the belly of the animal that creeps through the vegetation described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Bloody
(b) Bulging
(c) Strange
(d) Slimy
12. What color is the hour when Tiresias is watching?
(a) Coral
(b) Pink
(c) Violet
(d) Indigo
13. Who loiters near the Thames in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Nymphs
(b) Strangers
(c) Heirs of the city
(d) Dreams
14. What does the merchant not notice about the typist in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) She has another lover
(b) She is in pain
(c) She does not want his advances
(d) She is with child
15. What does Richmond promise the narrator in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A world of riches
(b) A new start
(c) A way out
(d) An adventure
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose finger sinks into the wet bank in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
2. What shines on Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
3. What is at the narrator’s back in the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
4. How many times is the word, ‘Twit’ repeated in succession in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
5. How does the narrator speak near the Thames?
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