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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Phlebas able to forget when he dies in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) His profits and losses
(b) His sins
(c) His lover
(d) The war

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where does the narrator weep at beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Near the Danube
(b) Near the Waters of Leman
(c) Near the Thames
(d) Near the White Cliffs

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator doing when an animal is seen creeping through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

2. What season is the animal is seen creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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

4. Whose finger sinks into the wet bank in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. What is at the narrator’s back in the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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