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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the overall impression of the building Richard lives in?
(a) Elegant, especially the paintwork.
(b) Squalid, given the state of the vestibule.
(c) Trendy.
(d) Vibrant, given the flourishing ficus.

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

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

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 starts to cry.
(c) She goes to the phone to call the police.
(d) She panics and runs to the kitchen.

5. What is interesting about Richard's lungs?
(a) The virus has not harmed them.
(b) They are the only organs to have been touched by the virus.
(c) Their capacity is small.
(d) They are unusually powerful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the word 'ephemera' mean?

3. What is the neighbors' garage made of?

4. What is perverse about Richard's good fortune?

5. What is a sarcophagus?

(see the answer key)

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