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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Clarissa regard herself?
(a) As a failed artist.
(b) As specially loving.
(c) As a fortunate woman.
(d) As an unlucky woman.

2. What is Virginia doing as she muses?
(a) Working at Hogarth Press.
(b) Sitting at her desk during a writing session.
(c) Walking in the streets of Richmond.
(d) Having a bath.

3. What does Laura seem to have learned through her time in the kitchen with Richie?
(a) The knack of living happily.
(b) That she doesn't want a second child.
(c) That she needs to be close to Richie.
(d) The foolishness of too much introspection.

4. What is the very long chapter in Richard's novel concerned with?
(a) The uses of sandpaper.
(b) A woman giving birth.
(c) A woman shopping for nail polish.
(d) A meditation over the breaking of an egg.

5. How does Virginia see herself?
(a) As a great writer.
(b) As a closet lesbian.
(c) As a privileged wife.
(d) As merely a gifted eccentric.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is represented by 'sinister beauty'?

2. Where is Clarissa when Willie Bass sees her?

3. What does Laura think might be a little foolish?

4. What does the word 'ephemera' mean?

5. Who dozes on a slatted bench?

(see the answer key)

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