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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What departs at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The light
(b) The summer
(c) The nymphs
(d) The love

2. What language does Mr. Eugenides use he speaks to the narrator?
(a) English
(b) German
(c) French
(d) Greek

3. What animal creeps through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A rat
(b) A muskrat
(c) A mouse
(d) A moose

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

5. What does the narrator compare to Phlebas in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) The reader
(b) Society
(c) All sailors
(d) Himself

6. What happens season will Sweeney be brought to Mrs. Porter?
(a) Summer
(b) Fall
(c) Winter
(d) Spring

7. Who is described as rudely forced in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Venus
(b) Elizabeth
(c) Philomel
(d) Mrs. Porter

8. Whose tent breaks at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) The river’s
(b) The fox’s
(c) The narrator’s
(d) The sky’s

9. How does the Thames run at the beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Softly
(b) Gracefully
(c) Boldly
(d) Quietly

10. How long has Phlebas been dead in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) A fortnight
(b) A year
(c) A month
(d) A day

11. How long does the Thames run in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Until the end of time
(b) Until it freezes over
(c) Until the song is over
(d) Until the sun returns

12. What picks Phlebas’s bones in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Seagulls
(b) The current
(c) Vultures
(d) Fish

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

14. 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

15. In Part III, The Fire Sermon, what do the departed forget to leave?
(a) Their luggage
(b) Their dues
(c) Their intentions
(d) Their addresses

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator speak near the Thames?

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

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

4. Where did Phlebas die in Part IV, Death by Water?

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

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