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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary device is used in the phrase 'it runs like veins of brilliant metal'?
(a) Semantic.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Metalanguage.
(d) Simile.

2. What is a sarcophagus?
(a) A sarcastic Greek.
(b) A kind of bone cancer.
(c) A stone coffin.
(d) A person who eats flesh.

3. What does Laura think of the shadow of the passing bird?
(a) She is indifferent to it.
(b) She thinks of how it represents freedom.
(c) She is briefly alarmed by it.
(d) She is briefly, deeply pleased by it.

4. What is the maid's response to Leonard's alarm?
(a) She turns her head away and conceals a smile of triumph.
(b) She panics and runs to the kitchen.
(c) She goes to the phone to call the police.
(d) She panics and starts to cry.

5. What is the meaning of the word 'obfuscation'?
(a) Objectionable.
(b) Fussy.
(c) Obese.
(d) Darkly obscure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Leonard when Virginia goes to talk to him?

2. How many planes does Virginia see above her?

3. Why does Clarissa take the stairs?

4. Who is described as being foreign-looking, with a Roman nose?

5. What does Virginia imagine appearing as a jellyfish?

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