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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator hear rattling in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Coins
(b) Bones
(c) Leaves
(d) Books

3. What color is the land as the wind crosses it in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Brown
(b) Green
(c) Red
(d) Black

4. With what does Mrs. Porter wash her feet inPart III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Acid
(b) Soda water
(c) Saline
(d) Oil

5. Who loiters near the Thames in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Nymphs
(b) Heirs of the city
(c) Strangers
(d) Dreams

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

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

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

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

10. Whose tent breaks at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The sky’s
(b) The river’s
(c) The narrator’s
(d) The fox’s

11. What is Mr. Eugenides’s occupation?
(a) Doctor
(b) Priest
(c) Writer
(d) Merchant

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

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

14. How does the Thames run at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Boldly
(b) Softly
(c) Quietly
(d) Gracefully

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Phlebas when he was alive?

2. What part of his own body does Tiresias call feminine?

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

4. What does the narrator compare to Phlebas in Part IV, Death by Water?

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

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