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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Laura's unexpressed desperation?
(a) Her sorrows are ordinary and she knows it.
(b) She feels trapped forever in an ordinary life.
(c) He belief that she will never live like Mrs. Dalloway.
(d) Her realization that Richie will grow up to be gay.

2. How does Virginia describe Vanessa's hand?
(a) Moist and fat.
(b) Plump.
(c) Elegant and graceful.
(d) Skinny.

3. How many times will Clarissa Dalloway have kissed a woman?
(a) Twice.
(b) Never.
(c) Once.
(d) On many occasions.

4. What prompts Laura's fury?
(a) Dan being off-hand with Richie.
(b) Dan secretly laughing at Laura's efforts.
(c) Dan's spittle on the cake.
(d) Dan being unable to blow out the candles.

5. What is Virginia doing as she muses?
(a) Having a bath.
(b) Working at Hogarth Press.
(c) Walking in the streets of Richmond.
(d) Sitting at her desk during a writing session.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character does Julia describe as strange?

2. Which character does Virginia wish to avoid?

3. In what season of the year does this part of the story take place?

4. What is the devil Virginia refers to?

5. What is perverse about Richard's good fortune?

(see the answer key)

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