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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a good house speak of?
(a) Comfort and safety.
(b) The social standing of the owners.
(c) The skill of the architect and builders.
(d) Good taste.

2. What is Virginia's reaction as Vanessa takes her hand?
(a) She feels comfortable.
(b) She feels both irritated and satisfied.
(c) She feels happy at this expression of caring.
(d) She feels she must put up with it for the children's sake.

3. Who gives Clarissa the nickname 'Mrs Dalloway'?
(a) Dennis
(b) Richard
(c) Sally
(d) Virginia

4. What literary device is represented by 'sinister beauty'?
(a) Dactyl.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Personification.

5. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?
(a) One is an artist and the other is a stock-broker.
(b) They dislike each other, but stay together in order not to lose face.
(c) Their relationship has laster twenty-seven years.
(d) They are a couple who never fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Laura doing with the blue bowl?

2. What color is Laura's gown?

3. Why is she 'allowed' to be self-indulgent at the moment?

4. In what way does Laura think she is similar to Virginia Woolf?

5. What is Richie nervous about?

(see the answer key)

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