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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ended the relationship between Clarissa and Peter?

2. What does Clarissa find ridiculous about Peter?

3. What lends an air of mystery to the vehicle in #20?

4. Whose marriage proposal had Clarissa turned down?

5. What about Clarissa amazes Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter feel about seeing Clarissa after so many years, and to what does he attribute Clarissa's breaking their engagement?

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

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

4. How does the author introduce Clarissa Dalloway?

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

6. Who would Peter spend time with at dinner parties when he didn't want to share Clarissa with anyone else?

7. Who is Peter Walsh, and what role did he play in Clarissa's life?

8. How did Peter know that Clarissa was in love with Richard Dalloway?

9. Why had Clarissa broken off her engagement to Peter?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the concept of loneliness as it exhibits in the story. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.

Essay Topic 2

Woolf was a master at dramatic devices. Choose an example of symbolism, metaphors, and irony, and then briefly describe them and identify the technique which they embody.

Essay Topic 3

Create a character study of Peter. What are his physical characteristics? What are his motivations? What are his fears? What are his dreams? Is he a positive person? What else can you say about the character?

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