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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 will bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A dream
(b) A horse
(c) A favorable wind
(d) A motor
2. What color is the land as the wind crosses it in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Brown
(b) Black
(c) Green
(d) Red
3. Where does the typist get her food?
(a) Bins
(b) Jars
(c) Tins
(d) Boxes
4. Whose tent breaks at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The fox’s
(b) The river’s
(c) The sky’s
(d) The narrator’s
5. What picks Phlebas’s bones in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Seagulls
(b) The current
(c) Vultures
(d) Fish
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator hear rattling 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. Where did Phlebas die in Part IV, Death by Water?
4. What shines on Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
5. What sweats out of the river in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does The Fire Sermon end, and what does it mean?
2. Who is Mr. Eugenides in The Fire Sermon?
3. In The Fire Sermon, what does the typist do when she comes home?
4. Who is Phlebas in Death by Water?
5. What do the words, “jug, jug, jug” refer to in The Fire Sermon?
6. Why are Elizabeth and Leicester mentioned in The Fire Sermon, what?
7. In The Fire Sermon, what does Richmond, promise and how does the narrator respond to this?
8. How is Mrs. Porter described in 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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