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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laura feel herself to be?
(a) Ungrateful and guilty.
(b) Loving and dutiful.
(c) Ghostlike: a presence that perceives.
(d) Airy: like a wandering wisp of wind.

2. What world does Laura feel she now inhabits?
(a) A twilight world of Los Angeles smog.
(b) A world away from the mundane.
(c) A twilight zone of London in the twenties.
(d) A holistic zone of healing.

3. What is Louis' profession?
(a) He is an actor.
(b) He is a drama teacher.
(c) He is a farmer.
(d) He is a travel agent.

4. How does this chapter begin?
(a) With the ordinary routines and rituals of going to bed.
(b) With Laura feeling ashamed.
(c) With Richie having a nightmare.
(d) With a cynical comment on married life.

5. What is Clarissa nervous about?
(a) The way her new lipstick will make her look.
(b) Whther or not Julia likes green tea and sugared ginger.
(c) The tic that always manifests itself if she is under stress.
(d) The way she ought to frame her comments to Julia.

6. What is Nelly preparing for supper?
(a) Boiled beef.
(b) Beef Wellington.
(c) Beef with burgundy.
(d) Roast beef.

7. What does Nelly bring from London?
(a) China tea and digestive biscuits.
(b) Jasmine tea and melting moments.
(c) China tea and sugared ginger.
(d) A child's coat from Harrods.

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

9. What does London mean to Virginia?
(a) Crowds and complications.
(b) Fear.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Vanity.

10. What is disturbing about Virginia kissing Vanessa?
(a) It happens on the train to London.
(b) It is done behind Nelly's back.
(c) It is done behind Leonard's back.
(d) It is not quite innocent.

11. What makes Virginia think of millinery?
(a) Birthdays.
(b) The thrush on its pyre.
(c) Harrods.
(d) Vanessa's elegance.

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

13. What is the cause of Mary's emotional distress?
(a) She is afraid Clarissa will steal Julia away from her.
(b) The trauma of going shopping and having to face sales clerks.
(c) She knows Julia will never love her the way she needs.
(d) She is upset by her encounter with Clarissa.

14. What preoccupies Virginia?
(a) The train time-table.
(b) The fate of 'Clarissa' in her novel.
(c) The price of children's coats in Harrods.
(d) Leonard's worry over her.

15. When she has to choose, what does Laura do?
(a) She drives into Los Angeles.
(b) She heads off back the way she came.
(c) She drives to Pasadena.
(d) She drives along the Pasadena Freeway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is implied about Richmond station's yellow wooden benches?

2. What is important about the imagery of the squirrel's tail?

3. From the description at the beginning of this chapter, what would be a good word to use to describe Walter Hardy's expression?

4. What is little Richie's response to his mother's return?

5. With what profession is Nelly's calm compared?

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