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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 language is used after Mrs. Porter is described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Russian
(b) German
(c) French
(d) Latin

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens season will Sweeney be brought to Mrs. Porter?

3. From where is Mr. Eugenides?

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

5. What does Richmond promise the narrator in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is Tiresias described in The Fire Sermon?

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

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

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

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

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