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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What departs at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The light
(b) The love
(c) The nymphs
(d) The summer

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

3. How does Tiresias know the typist does not love the merchant?
(a) She is unresponsive to his advances
(b) All things listed here
(c) She is grateful to see him leave
(d) She is not satisfied with his love making

4. How does the narrator describe Phlebas when he was alive?
(a) Tall
(b) All of those things listed here
(c) Handsome
(d) Strong

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

6. What shines on Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The sun
(b) The moon
(c) The stars
(d) The search light

7. What language is used after Mrs. Porter is described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) French
(b) Russian
(c) Latin
(d) German

8. 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) Under the great bridge
(d) Across from a graveyard

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

10. Who is described as rudely forced in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Mrs. Porter
(b) Elizabeth
(c) Philomel
(d) Venus

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

12. Where does the typist get her food?
(a) Tins
(b) Boxes
(c) Jars
(d) Bins

13. Who is with Mrs. Porter when a light shines on her in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Her sister
(b) Her daughter
(c) Her lover
(d) Her mother

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

15. What happens season will Sweeney be brought to Mrs. Porter?
(a) Fall
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) Spring

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Phlebas able to forget when he dies in Part IV, Death by Water?

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

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

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

5. Where did Phlebas die in Part IV, Death by Water?

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