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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of her siblings did Virginia think was dimwitted?
(a) George.
(b) Adrian.
(c) Thoby.
(d) Gerald.

2. How did Jack describe his father?
(a) Severe.
(b) Repressive.
(c) Jolly.
(d) Amorous.

3. What color did the family wear after Julia's death?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Brown.

4. Where did Thoby attend school?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Oxford.

5. What was symbolic to Virginia after Stella's death?
(a) A dead gull.
(b) A barren woman.
(c) A calm sea.
(d) A leafless tree.

6. How did Thoby act when he was young?
(a) Enthusiastic.
(b) Restrained.
(c) Belligerent.
(d) Emotional.

7. Where did Leslie go when the boys left the house for the day?
(a) His attic.
(b) The drawing room.
(c) His unknown special place.
(d) The gentleman's club.

8. What era of thinking did Virginia and Vanessa both belong in?
(a) Edwardian.
(b) Enlightening.
(c) Victorian.
(d) Industrial.

9. When listing the main attributes in the house of men, which one pertained to George?
(a) Busy.
(b) Opinionated.
(c) Hardworking.
(d) Volatile.

10. What did Strachey like to discuss the most?
(a) Gender roles.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Politics.
(d) Sex.

11. What social routine did Virginia have to follow?
(a) Industrial.
(b) Victorian.
(c) Libertarian.
(d) Edwardian.

12. Why did George start ignoring Vanessa?
(a) She would not behave the way he liked.
(b) She would not trust in him.
(c) She would act rudely in public settings.
(d) She would not stop her affair with Jack.

13. How old was Thoby when he died?
(a) 30.
(b) 28.
(c) 26.
(d) 32.

14. What sense did Virginia feel in the Bloomsbury house that she did not feel at Hyde Park?
(a) A sense of coherence and happiness.
(b) A sense of well-being.
(c) A sense of life being lived.
(d) A sense of familial privacy.

15. When was the vacation house sold?
(a) After Stella's marriage.
(b) After Julia's death.
(c) After Virginia's engagement.
(d) After Stella's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Leslie dying of?

2. Which of the following did Virginia NOT include in her list of things that left the house when Julia died?

3. Who worked the hardest to console Leslie after Julia's death?

4. What made Thoby very proud in his life?

5. What turned off a lot of Stella's suitors?

(see the answer keys)

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