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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 sister
(c) Her daughter
(d) Her lover

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

3. How does the Thames run at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Softly
(b) Quietly
(c) Gracefully
(d) Boldly

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

5. How long does the Thames run in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Until the end of time
(b) Until the song is over
(c) Until it freezes over
(d) Until the sun returns

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Mr. Eugenides use he speaks to the narrator?

2. What shines on Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. What does the narrator hear behind him Part III, The Fire Sermon?

4. What is at the narrator’s back in the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. What does Mr. Eugenides have in his pocket?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Tiresias witness in The Fire Sermon?

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

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

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

6. Who is Phlebas in Death by Water?

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

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

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

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

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