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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Laura desire?
(a) Both Kitty and Dan.
(b) Dan.
(c) Kitty.
(d) Kitty and Clarissa.

2. In what way does Oliver intend this film to be different?
(a) The hero will be an uncomplicated gay man.
(b) The hero will die in the end.
(c) The hero will be a tortured gay man with HIV.
(d) The hero will be an alien.

3. What does Richard call death?
(a) 'The black evil'.
(b) 'The scary monster'.
(c) 'The green silence'.
(d) ''The black silence'.

4. What is the very long chapter in Richard's novel concerned with?
(a) A meditation over the breaking of an egg.
(b) A woman shopping for nail polish.
(c) The uses of sandpaper.
(d) A woman giving birth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What world does Laura feel she now inhabits?

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

3. Why can't Laura take the sleeping pills?

4. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?

5. What is the devil Virginia refers to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Virginia, at this point, begin to reconsider killing off her character, Mrs. Dalloway?

2. What are some of the ways in which Laura justifies to herself her trip to the hotel just in order to read?

3. In what way is Laura's ambivalence towards her husband evident in Chapter 19 of The Hours?

4. What is unusual about Louis' visit?

5. What writing decision of Virginia's is prompted by her success in her campaign to move back to London?

6. What are Laura's rather bitter hopes about heaven?

7. In what ways are Clarissa and Mary different?

8. Which character is referred to as the subjugated Amazon Queen?

9. Why has Virginia's attitude changed?

10. Why does Walter want to buy his young partner a present?

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