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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Laura's unexpressed desperation?
(a) He belief that she will never live like Mrs. Dalloway.
(b) She feels trapped forever in an ordinary life.
(c) Her sorrows are ordinary and she knows it.
(d) Her realization that Richie will grow up to be gay.

2. Where does Clarissa imagine her rejected future taking place?
(a) Italy or France.
(b) Italy or Spain.
(c) Ireland or Australia.
(d) France and Spain.

3. What is Richie nervous about?
(a) Measuring the flour.
(b) Licking the bowl.
(c) Breaking the eggs.
(d) Measuring the butter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What annoys Leonard?

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

4. In what way does Oliver intend this film to be different?

5. When does Virginia say a person feels free to do anything?

(see the answer key)

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