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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. How did Virginia Woolf make herself improve her skills?
(a) She burned works that were bad.
(b) She had people criticize her work.
(c) She did daily drills.
(d) She read a lot.

2. Who became Virginia's surrogate mother when her mother died?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Stella.
(c) Vanessa.
(d) Julia.

3. What did Woolf say she was always looking for in her life?
(a) Something to belong to.
(b) Something greater and deeper.
(c) Something to hold on to.
(d) Something of worth.

4. What realm does the editor hope these writings will touch?
(a) The physical being.
(b) The spirit.
(c) The senses.
(d) The mind.

5. How did Woolf truly come to understand her beliefs and her place in the world?
(a) Through reading poetry.
(b) Through talking with her father.
(c) Through quiet contemplation in churches.
(d) Through writing fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Vanessa blame for Julia and Stella's deaths?

2. What does Virginia say Julia never had with any of her children?

3. Why did Virginia wish she could make a new first memory for herself?

4. What kind of fabric did Virginia compare day-to-day living to?

5. Why did Virginia never gain a full appreciation for Julia's beauty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Virginia's first vivid memory?

2. How did Stella die?

3. What gave Virginia a sense of self-importance?

4. What happened at one point when Virginia was reading a poem to Vanessa after Julia's death?

5. Why was Sybil Colfax friends with Virginia?

6. What did Virginia feel shame about when she was young, and how did that affect her in adulthood?

7. What did George try to do after Stella's death, and how did Virginia respond to this?

8. What did George once do to Virginia, and how did this affect her in adulthood?

9. Why does Virginia say her memories of Julia were so idealized?

10. How was Julia raised?

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