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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Louis?
(a) Clarissa's boss.
(b) Richard's boss.
(c) A French artist.
(d) Richard's gay lover.

2. Who careens past on a bicycle?
(a) A policeman.
(b) Walter.
(c) A Chinese boy.
(d) Barbara.

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

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

5. How does Laura imagine the birthday cake?
(a) Equal to anything in the shops.
(b) As good as anything in a magazine.
(c) As better than anything in a magazine.
(d) Better than she could by downtown.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Virginia put in the pocket of her cardigan?

3. How does Virginia get along with her neighbors?

4. What species of bird is mentioned as this chapter draws to a close?

5. What does Nelly bring from London?

(see the answer key)

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