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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times has Laura tried to get the cake right?
(a) Twice.
(b) Once.
(c) She gave up and bought one.
(d) Three times.

2. What does Virginia fear?
(a) Anger.
(b) Jellyfish.
(c) Relapse.
(d) Pain.

3. When does Virginia say a person feels free to do anything?
(a) When one lives in permissive times.
(b) When one has reached maturity.
(c) In the brief time when one is young.
(d) In old age.

4. What crisis looms before tea?
(a) The failure of the cake.
(b) The later arrival of the sugared ginger.
(c) Squabbles about the meaning of life.
(d) The crisis over the dying thrush.

5. What does writing, when inspired, give to Virginia?
(a) Profound satisfaction.
(b) A kind of madness.
(c) Money.
(d) A sense of timelessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Virginia feel around servants?

2. Where is Leonard when Virginia goes to talk to him?

3. What does the word 'emanate' mean?

4. How does Virginia get along with her neighbors?

5. When she has to choose, what does Laura do?

(see the answer key)

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