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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument does the narrator hear while walking along Lower Thames Street?
(a) Lute
(b) Harmonica
(c) Mandolin
(d) Harpsichord

2. Whose finger sinks into the wet bank in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) A blossom’s
(b) An orphan’s
(c) A leaf’s
(d) A rock’s

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

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

5. What season is the animal is seen creeping among the vegetation in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) Spring
(d) Fall

6. Who loiters near the Thames in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Dreams
(b) Strangers
(c) Nymphs
(d) Heirs of the city

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

8. What color is the hour when Tiresias is watching?
(a) Pink
(b) Coral
(c) Indigo
(d) Violet

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

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

11. What is Mr. Eugenides’s occupation?
(a) Writer
(b) Priest
(c) Doctor
(d) Merchant

12. What color is the land as the wind crosses it in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Green
(b) Black
(c) Brown
(d) Red

13. How is the belly of the animal that creeps through the vegetation described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) Strange
(b) Slimy
(c) Bloody
(d) Bulging

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

15. How many times is the word, ‘Twit’ repeated in succession in Part III, The Fire Sermon?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 6

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What language is used after Mrs. Porter is described in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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

4. What cries near Phlebas’s body in Part IV, Death by Water?

5. What color are the bodies littered on the ground in Part III, The Fire Sermon?

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