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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what does Mrs. Porter wash her feet inPart III, The Fire Sermon?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the main message of this section of The Fire Sermon?

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

5. Who is Phlebas in Death by Water?

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

7. How is Tiresias described in The Fire Sermon?

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

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

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

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