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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Clarissa thinks that Peter must wonder what she does every day besides __________________ and mending dresses.
(a) going to parties.
(b) going shopping.
(c) taking naps.
(d) gardening.

2. How did Peter feel about Clarissa when they were in Bourton?
(a) He thought she was rude to him.
(b) He thought she was a great actress.
(c) He thought she was incapable of love.
(d) He was madly in love with her.

3. How did Peter know that Clarissa had fallen in love with Richard?
(a) The way she blushed when his name was mentioned.
(b) The way she wrote his name over and over on the newspaper.
(c) The way she gazed at him when they danced.
(d) The way she stuttered every time he was around.

4. Who ended the relationship between Clarissa and Peter?
(a) Clarissa.
(b) Peter.
(c) Sally.
(d) Clarissa's father.

5. What does Clarissa think about marriage to Peter?
(a) She would marry him now if he asked.
(b) It is not too late to marry him.
(c) She is glad that she did not marry him.
(d) Perhaps she should have married him.

6. What does Peter not realize about Clarissa?
(a) She loves him too.
(b) She goes to therapy now.
(c) She has a terminal illness.
(d) She is leaving her husband.

7. In what city does Clarissa Dalloway live?
(a) Rome.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) New York.

8. Why has Peter returned to London?
(a) To get married.
(b) To attend his son's graduation.
(c) To see about getting a divorce.
(d) To go to a funeral.

9. While talking with Peter, Clarissa brings up the days _____________________.
(a) after their wedding.
(b) of her illness.
(c) at Oxford.
(d) at her father's house.

10. Whose marriage proposal had Clarissa turned down?
(a) James McAllister's.
(b) Hugh Whitbread's.
(c) Philip Sloane's.
(d) Peter Walsh's.

11. Why does Clarissa not wear her favorite dress to her party?
(a) It is torn and has to be mended.
(b) She feels too chubby in it.
(c) It is at the dry cleaners.
(d) She wears a new one instead.

12. What is the name of the floral shop where Clarissa shops?
(a) Ivy League.
(b) Roxy's Shop.
(c) Mulberry's Shop.
(d) A'Bloom.

13. What kind of parties does Peter recall from the days at Bourton?
(a) Cocktail parties.
(b) Dinner parties.
(c) Theatre parties.
(d) Christmas parties.

14. Who is Septimus' wife?
(a) Alicia.
(b) Celeste.
(c) Eveline.
(d) Lucrezia.

15. Peter thinks that Clarissa looks at him as ______________________.
(a) a lover.
(b) a failure.
(c) a hero.
(d) a genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Peter think when he was first introduced to Richard Dalloway?

2. How does Clarissa characterize Hugh?

3. Who is the woman Peter now plans to marry?

4. How does Peter feel about Clarissa?

5. Where did Clarissa attend school?

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