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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Clarissa when Willie Bass sees her?
(a) On the corner of Eighth Avenue and King Boulevarde.
(b) On the corner of Eighth Street and Park Avenue
(c) On the corner of Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue.
(d) On the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 90th Street.

2. What is the problem with the faces of George Washington?
(a) They have inappropriate expressions.
(b) They don't quite match.
(c) One is missing its nose and the other is eroded.
(d) They have been destroyed by weather.

3. What is the last thing Virginia truly perceives?
(a) A blue sky and sparrows.
(b) A red-jacketed man fishing under a cloudy sky.
(c) A man standing on a bridge and looking at her.
(d) That Vanessa will be a comfort to Leonard.

4. Who is described as being foreign-looking, with a Roman nose?
(a) Clarissa Vaughan.
(b) Clarissa Dalloway.
(c) Laura Brown.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

5. In what season of the year does this part of the story take place?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Autumn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sarcophagus?

2. Who dozes on a slatted bench?

3. Which novel is Laura Brown reading?

4. How does Clarissa think we ought first to measure people?

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

(see the answer key)

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