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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. What is the curious habit of the Irish cook?
(a) She smokes a cigar.
(b) She whistles all the time.
(c) She works barefooted.
(d) She falls in love with every man she sees.

2. What is Peter's perception of Clarissa when he leaves her house?
(a) She is even more beautiful now.
(b) She will love him again.
(c) She has become hard.
(d) She looks ill.

3. Peter thinks that Clarissa cannot understand ____________________.
(a) how a business runs.
(b) the workings of Parliament.
(c) international finances.
(d) the level of Peter's heartbreak.

4. What did Peter think when he was first introduced to Richard Dalloway?
(a) He knew that he was a good athlete.
(b) He thought he was a scoundrel.
(c) He knew he would go into politics.
(d) He knew Clarissa would marry him.

5. Who waits on Clarissa in the floral shop?
(a) Miss Penn.
(b) Miss Pinchot.
(c) Miss Pym.
(d) Miss Pendrake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Peter returned to London?

2. Who is Clarissa's housekeeper?

3. What is Clarissa doing when Peter arrives?

4. How long has Peter Walsh been gone from England?

5. How does Clarissa characterize Hugh?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Septimus and Lucrezia and what behavior of Septimus' bothers her when they are with other people in the park?

2. In what ways is Clarissa like the author, Virginia Woolf, in her personality traits?

3. What memories does Clarissa have about living at Bourton and being in love with Sally Seton?

4. Who is Daisy and what role does she play in Peter's life?

5. What were Peter's thoughts of Richard Dalloway when he first met him at a dinner party?

6. What are Clarissa's immediate thoughts when Peter surprises her by showing up at her house?

7. Who is Sally Seton and what role does she play in Clarissa's life?

8. What do both Peter and Clarissa secretly think about the other?

9. How has Septimus changed since the war and what are Rezia's thoughts about his altered behavior now?

10. Who is Hugh Whitbread and what role does he play in Clarissa's lie?

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