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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 happens season will Sweeney be brought to Mrs. Porter?
(a) Spring
(b) Summer
(c) Fall
(d) Winter
2. How does the narrator speak near the Thames?
(a) All of those things listed here
(b) Long
(c) Loud
(d) False
3. What picks Phlebas’s bones in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Fish
(b) Seagulls
(c) Vultures
(d) The current
4. Where did Phlebas die in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) In a river
(b) At sea
(c) In prison
(d) At home
5. What does the narrator say humble people expect from him in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Information
(b) Brutality
(c) Love
(d) Nothing
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator compare to Phlebas in Part IV, Death by Water?
2. Where does the typist get her food?
3. How does the Thames run at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
4. What animal creeps through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
5. What type of bird narrates the section about the animal creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Mr. Eugenides included in The Fire Sermon?
2. What is the significance of the title of The Fire Sermon?
3. Why are Elizabeth and Leicester mentioned in The Fire Sermon, what?
4. In The Fire Sermon, what does the typist do when she comes home?
5. How is Mrs. Porter described in The Fire Sermon?
6. What does Tiresias witness in The Fire Sermon?
7. What does the river mentioned at the beginning of The Fire Sermon symbolize?
8. What do the words, “jug, jug, jug” refer to 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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