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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long has Phlebas been dead in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) A day
(b) A year
(c) A fortnight
(d) A month

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

4. What is the narrator doing when an animal is seen creeping through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Fishing
(b) Crying
(c) Eating
(d) Gathering

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

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

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

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

9. What instrument does the narrator hear while walking along Lower Thames Street?
(a) Harmonica
(b) Mandolin
(c) Harpsichord
(d) Lute

10. What does the merchant not notice about the typist in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) She has another lover
(b) She does not want his advances
(c) She is with child
(d) She is in pain

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

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

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

14. How many times is the word, ‘Twit’ repeated in succession in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 6

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the bodies littered on the ground in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

2. What animal creeps through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. What does the narrator hear rattling in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

4. What type of bird narrates the section about the animal creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. What will bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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