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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many words has Virginia written in this session?
(a) Two hundred and ninety.
(b) A thousand.
(c) Two hundred and fifty.
(d) Two hundred.

2. Who dozes on a slatted bench?
(a) An old woman in a red jacket.
(b) Leonard.
(c) An old woman in a shawl.
(d) Clarissa.

3. Who is described as being foreign-looking, with a Roman nose?
(a) Clarissa Vaughan.
(b) Clarissa Dalloway.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Laura Brown.

4. In what way does Virginia see Clarissa coming to her senses.
(a) By calming down and looking at things rationally.
(b) By recognizing her difficulties.
(c) By marrying for love.
(d) By marrying a suitable man

5. What crisis looms before tea?
(a) Squabbles about the meaning of life.
(b) The crisis over the dying thrush.
(c) The later arrival of the sugared ginger.
(d) The failure of the cake.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Virginia leave notes?

2. What sudden change in Virginia has occurred?

3. What literary device is used in the phrase 'it runs like veins of brilliant metal'?

4. With which particular person does Laura contrast her own life?

5. What will prompt Dan to say: 'Get a load of this'?

(see the answer key)

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