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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clarissa imagine her roses appear to be, according to Mary's view of the world?
(a) Things of beauty and substance.
(b) Symbolic of transience.
(c) Symbolic of oppression.
(d) Unnecessary and expensive.

2. How does Virginia feel around servants?
(a) Weak and fumbling.
(b) At ease. They know their place.
(c) Superior.
(d) Secretive and guilty.

3. Why was Oliver dropped from his leading role in a thriller?
(a) Because he 'came out' as gay.
(b) Because he asked for double the money.
(c) Because he wanted to rewrite his part.
(d) Because he argued with the director.

4. What does the unusual light in Richard's apartment reveal?
(a) That he really needs to fire his cleaning lady.
(b) The way the illness has ravaged his face and body.
(c) The flaws and smallness of his life's detritus.
(d) His astonishing taste in art.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?

2. Where would Clarissa like her ashes to be scattered?

3. Why does Richard burn incense?

4. Vanessa resembles a sculpture of which period, according to Virginia?

5. How old was Richard when he and Clarissa argued?

(see the answer key)

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