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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What crisis looms before tea?
(a) The crisis over the dying thrush.
(b) The failure of the cake.
(c) The later arrival of the sugared ginger.
(d) Squabbles about the meaning of life.

5. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?
(a) One is an artist and the other is a stock-broker.
(b) Their relationship has laster twenty-seven years.
(c) They dislike each other, but stay together in order not to lose face.
(d) They are a couple who never fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character does Virginia wish to avoid?

2. What is a sarcophagus?

3. What does Virginia imagine appearing as a jellyfish?

4. Where does Clarissa imagine her rejected future taking place?

5. What annoys Leonard?

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