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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her suicide note, what impression does Virginia give of her marriage?
(a) That it was a sham.
(b) That it could never have worked.
(c) That it was too confronting.
(d) That it was happy and loving.

2. What worries Leonard about Virginia's behavior?
(a) She is refusing to eat.
(b) She is being rude to Nelly.
(c) She is unable to work.
(d) She is relying too much on coffee and alcohol.

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

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

5. How does Virginia feel around servants?
(a) Superior.
(b) At ease. They know their place.
(c) Weak and fumbling.
(d) Secretive and guilty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Literally, what does the word 'porcine' mean?

2. What worrying symptoms does she think about?

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

4. Where is Walter Hardy heading?

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

(see the answer key)

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