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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Virginia imagine appearing as a jellyfish?
(a) Death.
(b) Her anger towards Nelly.
(c) A character in Mrs Dalloway.
(d) Her headache.

2. How many words has Virginia written in this session?
(a) Two hundred and ninety.
(b) Two hundred and fifty.
(c) A thousand.
(d) Two hundred.

3. When she has to choose, what does Laura do?
(a) She heads off back the way she came.
(b) She drives along the Pasadena Freeway.
(c) She drives to Pasadena.
(d) She drives into Los Angeles.

4. Who does Laura desire?
(a) Both Kitty and Dan.
(b) Dan.
(c) Kitty.
(d) Kitty and Clarissa.

5. As she drives, in what does Laura find consolation?
(a) The impeccable way she has organized things.
(b) That she has remembered to bring her book.
(c) That her earrings match her bracelet.
(d) That the car is clean.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the meaning of the word 'obfuscation'?

3. What does Virginia fear?

4. Where is this chapter set?

5. Who has a voice like a parakeet, according to Virginia?

(see the answer key)

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