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

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

3. 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

4. Whose finger sinks into the wet bank in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A leaf’s
(b) An orphan’s
(c) A blossom’s
(d) A rock’s

5. What does Richmond promise the narrator in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A new start
(b) A world of riches
(c) An adventure
(d) A way out

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of his own body does Tiresias call feminine?

2. What language is used after Mrs. Porter is described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. What will bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

4. Whose tent breaks at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. How long has Phlebas been dead in Part IV, Death by Water?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Phlebas in Death by Water?

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

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

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

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 is the significance of the title Death by Water?

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