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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Barbara come to New York?
(a) To escape a disapproving family.
(b) To be near her lover, an opera singer.
(c) To sing opera.
(d) To open a florist shop.

3. Who has a voice like a parakeet, according to Virginia?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Nelly.
(c) Barbara.
(d) Marjorie.

4. What has appeared in the window-box of the woman next door?
(a) A single gerbera.
(b) A rose.
(c) A dandelion.
(d) Petunias.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many words has Virginia written in this session?

2. Where is Clarissa when Willie Bass sees her?

3. What does a good house speak of?

4. What is Laura doing with the blue bowl?

5. What is the problem with the faces of George Washington?

(see the answer key)

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