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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary device is represented by 'sinister beauty'?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Dactyl.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

2. What does Virginia put in the pocket of her cardigan?
(a) Two suicide notes.
(b) A handful of pebbles and small rocks.
(c) A large stone.
(d) Money.

3. What world does Laura feel she now inhabits?
(a) A twilight world of Los Angeles smog.
(b) A holistic zone of healing.
(c) A twilight zone of London in the twenties.
(d) A world away from the mundane.

4. What is it that Clarissa suddenly doesn't have any more?
(a) Her flowers.
(b) Her grey alpaca jacket.
(c) Her will to live.
(d) Her desire to visit Richard.

5. What can Virginia feel inside herself?
(a) Hunger--both to eat and to write.
(b) A parallel, purer self--like a soul.
(c) A black, evil soul.
(d) A cancer growing aggressively.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drove Clarissa to part from Richard over thirty years ago?

2. What is the maid's response to Leonard's alarm?

3. Who has a voice like a parakeet, according to Virginia?

4. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?

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

(see the answer key)

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