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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Virginia say a person feels free to do anything?
(a) In old age.
(b) When one lives in permissive times.
(c) In the brief time when one is young.
(d) When one has reached maturity.

2. How does Clarissa think we ought first to measure people?
(a) By their kindness and capacity for devotion.
(b) By their kindness and ability to be strong when needed.
(c) By the strength of their devotion and their commitment to art.
(d) By their moral strength and religious devotions.

3. What does Laura think might be a little foolish?
(a) Comparing her cake with a great work or art or architecture.
(b) Spending so much of the day on making a cake.
(c) Scrimping to buy the cheapest flour.
(d) Comparing her cake to what she has seen in magazines.

4. Who is Louis?
(a) Richard's gay lover.
(b) Clarissa's boss.
(c) Richard's boss.
(d) A French artist.

5. To what is Laura's love for Richie compared?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Appetite.
(c) Food.
(d) Jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season of the year does this part of the story take place?

2. What can Leonard not easily distinguish?

3. What does Virginia fear?

4. In what way does Virginia see Clarissa coming to her senses.

5. What pet-name does Laura have for Richie?

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