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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of top is Clarissa wearing?
(a) An elegant silk shirt.
(b) A knitted top.
(c) A blue turtleneck.
(d) A man's cotton shirt.

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

3. What can Virginia feel inside herself?
(a) A parallel, purer self--like a soul.
(b) A black, evil soul.
(c) A cancer growing aggressively.
(d) Hunger--both to eat and to write.

4. Where is this chapter set?
(a) New York in 1994.
(b) A london suburb in 1941.
(c) Richmond-on-Thames, 1941.
(d) A London suburb in the year 1923.

5. How does Virginia describe Ralph?
(a) As handsome but amoral.
(b) As handsome and callow.
(c) As a handsome ditherer.
(d) As daring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sarcophagus?

2. What is the neighbors' garage made of?

3. What has appeared in the window-box of the woman next door?

4. What is the reason for the slabs of italic type in this chapter?

5. What literary device is represented by 'sinister beauty'?

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