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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where would Clarissa like her ashes to be scattered?
(a) In her own garden.
(b) Wherever Richard's are scattered.
(c) On the big dune at Wellfleet.
(d) Over the lake in Central Park.

3. To Clarissa, what does Mary resemble?
(a) An Amazon.
(b) A glamor-puss.
(c) A feral child.
(d) A stray dog.

4. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?
(a) The way the door has a green-shuttered window in it.
(b) The size and shape of it compared to the main house.
(c) The way the door has a cantilevered front extension, like a storm porch.
(d) The way the door has two little red windows in it.

5. What is important about the imagery of the squirrel's tail?
(a) Its shape makes us question ourselves on environmental issues.
(b) It's imagery never been used previously in literature.
(c) It reminds us to look out for squirrels when we are driving.
(d) Its question mark shape links to Laura's musing about death.

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

7. Where will Laura put her robe?
(a) On the end of the bed.
(b) Over a chair.
(c) In the wardrobe.
(d) On a hook behind the door.

8. What is the toothbrush-holder made of?
(a) Wicker.
(b) Stainless steel.
(c) Porcelain.
(d) Glass.

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

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

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

12. What does Laura intend to do in the hotel room?
(a) Read Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Commit suicide.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Read Mrs Dalloway.

13. How much of her book has Laura now read?
(a) Three quarters of it.
(b) Half of it.
(c) All of it.
(d) More than a third of it.

14. How has Laura set the table?
(a) With a batik cloth she bought in Bali.
(b) With a serviceable oilcloth.
(c) With a starched white cloth.
(d) With a set of white place-mats.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Virginia and Vanessa do behind Nelly's back?

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. How does Virginia describe Vanessa's hand?

5. Where does Clarissa find Richard?

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