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

2. What does Mr. Eugenides have in his pocket?
(a) Currants
(b) Coins
(c) Rocks
(d) Tacks

3. What type of bird narrates the section about the animal creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Raven
(b) King Fisher
(c) Pelican
(d) Nightingale

4. What cries near Phlebas’s body in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Children
(b) Mermaids
(c) The wind
(d) Gulls

5. What is the narrator doing when an animal is seen creeping through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Crying
(b) Eating
(c) Fishing
(d) Gathering

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator speak near the Thames?

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

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

4. In Part III, The Fire Sermon, what do the departed forget to leave?

5. Where does the narrator weep at beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is Tiresias described in The Fire Sermon?

5. Why is Mr. Eugenides included in The Fire Sermon?

6. Who is Phlebas in Death by Water?

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

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

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

10. What is the significance of the title of The Fire Sermon?

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