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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What color are the bodies littered on the ground in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) White
(b) Gray
(c) Blue
(d) Brown

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where are bones of the bodies littered on the ground cast in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. Where is the animal found creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

4. What sweats out of the river in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the river mentioned at the beginning of The Fire Sermon symbolize?

2. Why are Elizabeth and Leicester mentioned in The Fire Sermon, what?

3. What is the significance of the title Death by Water?

4. What do the words, “jug, jug, jug” refer to in The Fire Sermon?

5. How does The Fire Sermon end, and what does it mean?

6. Why is Mr. Eugenides included in The Fire Sermon?

7. What is the significance of the title of The Fire Sermon?

8. What is the main idea of the last section of Death by Water?

9. In The Fire Sermon, what does Richmond, promise and how does the narrator respond to this?

10. Who is Mr. Eugenides in The Fire Sermon?

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