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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Clarissa suddenly doesn't have any more?
(a) Her desire to visit Richard.
(b) Her grey alpaca jacket.
(c) Her flowers.
(d) Her will to live.

2. How does Virginia see herself?
(a) As merely a gifted eccentric.
(b) As a great writer.
(c) As a closet lesbian.
(d) As a privileged wife.

3. What does Clarissa urge Richard to do?
(a) Look into the past for answers.
(b) Not to regret anything because he has done a lot.
(c) Not to finish his current book, but to enjoy the tie he has left.
(d) Throw out his smelly old chair.

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

5. What is perverse about Richard's good fortune?
(a) He has won a major literary prize but he'll need all the money to pay off debts.
(b) He has won a major literary prize, but his health is in serious decline.
(c) He has the money to buy a new apartment but mightn't live to get to move into it.
(d) It has come just when he is no longer interested in fame.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Virginia get along with her neighbors?

2. What does Leonard intend to do when he goes upstairs?

3. Why did Barbara come to New York?

4. In her suicide note, what impression does Virginia give of her marriage?

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

(see the answer key)

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