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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is implied about Richmond station's yellow wooden benches?
(a) They are attractive.
(b) They are necessary and appreciated by travelers.
(c) They are comfortable.
(d) They are hard.

2. What does Richard's empty chair reveal?
(a) Discarded food.
(b) The physical unpleasantness of mortal illness.
(c) The loneliness he has experienced.
(d) The extent of its disrepair and theecessity of replacing it.

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

4. What information does Nelly give Virginia?
(a) That she needs to go up to London.
(b) That she is making shepherd's pie for lunch.
(c) That she is making a lamb pie for lunch.
(d) That she will resign.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is disturbing Laura?

2. What does the unusual light in Richard's apartment reveal?

3. What world does Laura feel she now inhabits?

4. From the description at the beginning of this chapter, what would be a good word to use to describe Walter Hardy's expression?

5. How does Virginia describe Vanessa's hand?

(see the answer key)

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