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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are Virginia and Marjorie doing when Vanessa arrives?
(a) Having morning tea.
(b) Squabbling.
(c) Writing and reading galley proofs.
(d) Reading proofs and parceling up books.

3. What is Virginia's reaction as Vanessa takes her hand?
(a) She feels she must put up with it for the children's sake.
(b) She feels happy at this expression of caring.
(c) She feels both irritated and satisfied.
(d) She feels comfortable.

4. Why has Kitty acted strangely and desperately?
(a) She is jealous of Laura because she has a child.
(b) She has realised she does not love Ray any more.
(c) She is afraid she might be pregnant.
(d) Her illness and imminent operation have made her afraid.

5. What is Laura doing with the blue bowl?
(a) Admiring it.
(b) Sifting flour into it.
(c) Beating butter and sugar in it.
(d) Washing it up.

6. What does Laura seem to have learned through her time in the kitchen with Richie?
(a) The knack of living happily.
(b) That she needs to be close to Richie.
(c) That she doesn't want a second child.
(d) The foolishness of too much introspection.

7. Literally, what does the word 'porcine' mean?
(a) Like a pig.
(b) Uncertain.
(c) Fat.
(d) Like a porcupine.

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

9. What is disturbing Laura?
(a) She is experiencing a sudden aversion to her husband and child.
(b) She's experiencing an upset stomach and feels embarrassed.
(c) She is experiencing a strange fear that her pregnancy will go wrong.
(d) She's experiencing a dreamlike feeling that she cannot shake.

10. What can Leonard not easily distinguish?
(a) The difference between roman and italic type.
(b) Virginia's normal behavior and her madness.
(c) The difference between red, green and brown.
(d) The difference between a setback and a tragedy.

11. What is the maid's response to Leonard's alarm?
(a) She turns her head away and conceals a smile of triumph.
(b) She panics and starts to cry.
(c) She panics and runs to the kitchen.
(d) She goes to the phone to call the police.

12. What factor turns Virginia into 'a fantastic figure'?
(a) The stripes of green-black weed.
(b) The effect of the strong current as it carries her away.
(c) Her fur coat.
(d) The interplay of light on seaweed and water.

13. What is the overall impression of the building Richard lives in?
(a) Vibrant, given the flourishing ficus.
(b) Elegant, especially the paintwork.
(c) Trendy.
(d) Squalid, given the state of the vestibule.

14. What does Laura think of the shadow of the passing bird?
(a) She is briefly alarmed by it.
(b) She is indifferent to it.
(c) She is briefly, deeply pleased by it.
(d) She thinks of how it represents freedom.

15. In what season of the year does this part of the story take place?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Autumn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does not look well on Sally?

2. What does Virginia fear?

3. What does Virginia imagine appearing as a jellyfish?

4. How does Clarissa think we ought first to measure people?

5. How many planes does Virginia see above her?

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