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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What cries near Phlebas’s body in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) Children
(b) Gulls
(c) The wind
(d) Mermaids
2. How is the belly of the animal that creeps through the vegetation described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Strange
(b) Slimy
(c) Bulging
(d) Bloody
3. What sweats out of the river in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Life and death
(b) Oil and tar
(c) Rainbows of muck
(d) Fish
4. Where is the animal found creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Across from a graveyard
(b) Behind the gas house
(c) At the shore of a pond
(d) Under the great bridge
5. Where does the typist get her food?
(a) Boxes
(b) Bins
(c) Jars
(d) Tins
6. In Part III, The Fire Sermon, what do the departed forget to leave?
(a) Their addresses
(b) Their luggage
(c) Their intentions
(d) Their dues
7. How does Tiresias know the typist does not love the merchant?
(a) She is not satisfied with his love making
(b) All things listed here
(c) She is unresponsive to his advances
(d) She is grateful to see him leave
8. Who loiters near the Thames in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Heirs of the city
(b) Nymphs
(c) Strangers
(d) Dreams
9. What does the narrator hear rattling in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Books
(b) Bones
(c) Leaves
(d) Coins
10. Where did Phlebas die in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) In prison
(b) In a river
(c) At home
(d) At sea
11. Who is described as rudely forced in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Mrs. Porter
(c) Philomel
(d) Venus
12. What instrument does the narrator hear while walking along Lower Thames Street?
(a) Lute
(b) Harpsichord
(c) Harmonica
(d) Mandolin
13. What is Mr. Eugenides’s occupation?
(a) Doctor
(b) Priest
(c) Writer
(d) Merchant
14. What is the narrator doing when an animal is seen creeping through the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Gathering
(b) Fishing
(c) Eating
(d) Crying
15. What is Phlebas able to forget when he dies in Part IV, Death by Water?
(a) His profits and losses
(b) The war
(c) His sins
(d) His lover
Short Answer Questions
1. Where are bones of the bodies littered on the ground cast in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
2. What does Richmond promise the narrator in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
3. What language is used after Mrs. Porter is described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
4. Where does the narrator weep at beginning of Part III, The Fire Sermon?
5. What season is the animal is seen creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
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