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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the children doing as the novel begins?
(a) Saying grace before dinner.
(b) Waking up.
(c) Playing in the garden.
(d) Going to bed.

2. What is the dominant image in the beginning of Section 2?
(a) A silent forest.
(b) The sun setting.
(c) The sun at mid-point in the sky.
(d) Waves on the beach as the sun rises.

3. Who "only understands cries of love, hate, rage and pain"?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Susan.
(c) Louis.
(d) Bernard.

4. Which of the speakers expresses an appreciation for natural beauty in Section 3?
(a) Susan.
(b) Neville.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Rhoda.

5. Who professes that Bernard looks composed?
(a) Neville.
(b) Susan.
(c) Percival.
(d) Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word best describes Rhoda's tone in Section 1?

2. Who refers to all the happenings as "scuffling and hubbub"?

3. Who is picking flowers alone in the novel's first section?

4. Who says, "Now let us issue from the darkness of solitude" at one point in Section 4?

5. What "ceremony" does Bernard dislike so much?

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