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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What troubles Laura about Richie?
(a) His cough.
(b) His sensitiveness and delicacy.
(c) His tendency to be silent.
(d) His fear of birds.

3. What species of bird is mentioned as this chapter draws to a close?
(a) Rooks.
(b) Herons.
(c) Nightjars.
(d) Robins.

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

5. Why has Kitty acted strangely and desperately?
(a) She has realised she does not love Ray any more.
(b) She is afraid she might be pregnant.
(c) She is jealous of Laura because she has a child.
(d) Her illness and imminent operation have made her afraid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a good house speak of?

2. For whom does Virginia leave notes?

3. To what is Laura's love for Richie compared?

4. What is disturbing Laura?

5. What sort of top is Clarissa wearing?

(see the answer key)

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