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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Eugenides have in his pocket?
(a) Currants
(b) Tacks
(c) Rocks
(d) Coins

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

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

4. What will bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A horse
(b) A motor
(c) A favorable wind
(d) A dream

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Where are bones of the bodies littered on the ground cast in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The water
(b) The foxes hole
(c) The garret
(d) The bin

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

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

15. From where is Mr. Eugenides?
(a) Smyrna
(b) Surrey
(c) Sussett
(d) Stanford

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the Thames run at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. What does the narrator say humble people expect from him in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

4. How long does the Thames run in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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

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