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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Phlebas able to forget when he dies in Part IV, Death by Water?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Tiresias witness in The Fire Sermon?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Diversity and discrimination are two major and related themes in this poem. Where do these themes appear, and how do they work together to propel the plot of the poem?

Essay Topic 2

Eliot presents the idea that lust and passion are mostly negative things. How does he make this point?

Essay Topic 3

Eliot references war many times throughout this poem. What are some of these references, and how do they affect the tone of the poem?

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