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

2. What will bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A favorable wind
(b) A horse
(c) A motor
(d) A dream

3. From where is Mr. Eugenides?
(a) Smyrna
(b) Stanford
(c) Sussett
(d) Surrey

4. What color is the hour when Tiresias is watching?
(a) Violet
(b) Pink
(c) Coral
(d) Indigo

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What departs at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. What is the narrator doing when an animal is seen creeping through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In The Fire Sermon, what does the typist do when her lover leaves?

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

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

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

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

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