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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Leonard not easily distinguish?
(a) Virginia's normal behavior and her madness.
(b) The difference between roman and italic type.
(c) The difference between red, green and brown.
(d) The difference between a setback and a tragedy.

2. What sudden change in Virginia has occurred?
(a) Her hair is quickly going white.
(b) She seems too happy.
(c) She is no longer beautiful.
(d) Her hands look arthritic.

3. What is Laura doing with the blue bowl?
(a) Sifting flour into it.
(b) Washing it up.
(c) Admiring it.
(d) Beating butter and sugar in it.

4. Where does Virginia's body finally come to rest?
(a) Under a bridge in London.
(b) Against a bridge piling at Southease.
(c) Under a jetty at Richmond.
(d) Against a bridge piling at Southwark.

5. What is perverse about Richard's good fortune?
(a) He has won a major literary prize but he'll need all the money to pay off debts.
(b) It has come just when he is no longer interested in fame.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word 'ephemera' mean?

2. What preoccupies Virginia?

3. Why does Clarissa imagine Julia despises her?

4. When she was at school, Kitty was part of _________________________________.

5. How does Virginia feel around servants?

(see the answer key)

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