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

2. Who is Hugh's mother?
(a) Evelyn.
(b) Dolores.
(c) Bernice.
(d) Wanda.

3. What does Clarissa see outside the floral shop window?
(a) A chauffeured car.
(b) A motorcycle.
(c) A police car.
(d) An ambulance.

4. Why does Peter Walsh think that he doesn't like returning to England?
(a) It is too ravaged from the war.
(b) He doesn't approve of the prime minister's policies.
(c) He rejects the idea of a monarchy.
(d) The politeness of society has waned.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Clarissa doing when Peter arrives?

2. How does the weather on this day make Clarissa feel?

3. Peter was jealous of the time that Clarissa spent with ___________________.

4. Clarissa is fond of viewing things as ___________________.

5. How does Peter feel about Clarissa?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Peter's thoughts about Clarissa as he walks away from her house?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Peter recall about Sally Seton from years ago?

9. How does the author introduce Clarissa Dalloway?

10. What is wrong with the dress Clarissa wants to wear to her party?

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