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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 the narrator doing when an animal is seen creeping through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Eating
(b) Fishing
(c) Gathering
(d) Crying

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where is Mr. Eugenides?

2. In Part III, The Fire Sermon, what do the departed forget to leave?

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

4. What color is the land as the wind crosses it in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. What color are the bodies littered on the ground in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In The Fire Sermon, what does the typist do when she comes home?

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

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

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

6. How is Mrs. Porter described in The Fire Sermon?

7. What does Tiresias witness in The Fire Sermon?

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

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

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

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