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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 color is the hour when Tiresias is watching?

2. How many times is the word, ‘Twit’ repeated in succession in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

3. What does the narrator say humble people expect from him in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

4. What sweats out of the river in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

5. Where are bones of the bodies littered on the ground cast in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Tiresias described in The Fire Sermon?

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

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

6. What does Tiresias witness in The Fire Sermon?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

All of the seasons are described at the beginning of the poem. Why is this, and what does this foreshadow?

Essay Topic 2

There are many foreign languages used in this poem. What is the significance of using foreign languages?

Essay Topic 3

Two different relationships are compared in A Game of Chess. Why does the poet included these different relationship, and what do they symbolize?

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