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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) Spring
(b) Summer
(c) Fall
(d) Winter

2. What does Richmond promise the narrator in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A new start
(b) An adventure
(c) A world of riches
(d) A way out

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

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

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

6. How is the belly of the animal that creeps through the vegetation described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Strange
(b) Bloody
(c) Bulging
(d) Slimy

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

8. What type of bird narrates the section about the animal creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) King Fisher
(b) Pelican
(c) Nightingale
(d) Raven

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

10. What does the narrator hear behind him Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Horns
(b) Thunder
(c) Wind
(d) Screams

11. What cries near Phlebas’s body in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Mermaids
(b) The wind
(c) Gulls
(d) Children

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens season will Sweeney be brought to Mrs. Porter?

3. What does Mr. Eugenides have in his pocket?

4. Where does the narrator weep at beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. What instrument does the narrator hear while walking along Lower Thames Street?

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