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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laura think might be a little foolish?
(a) Spending so much of the day on making a cake.
(b) Scrimping to buy the cheapest flour.
(c) Comparing her cake to what she has seen in magazines.
(d) Comparing her cake with a great work or art or architecture.

2. What does Virginia fear?
(a) Jellyfish.
(b) Anger.
(c) Relapse.
(d) Pain.

3. For whom does Virginia leave notes?
(a) Vanessa and Clarissa
(b) Richard and Clarissa.
(c) Leonard and Vanessa.
(d) Leonard and Clarissa.

4. Vanessa resembles a sculpture of which period, according to Virginia?
(a) Sixteenth century.
(b) Byzantine.
(c) Late Baroque.
(d) Pre-Raphaelite.

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

6. What will prompt Dan to say: 'Get a load of this'?
(a) Seeing the expensive shirt and tie Clarissa has bought for him.
(b) Seeing the cake Clarissa has made for him.
(c) Seeing how wonderfully clean and tidy the house is.
(d) Seeing Richie all dressed up for the occasion.

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

8. What is it that Clarissa suddenly doesn't have any more?
(a) Her flowers.
(b) Her will to live.
(c) Her grey alpaca jacket.
(d) Her desire to visit Richard.

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

10. Who has a voice like a parakeet, according to Virginia?
(a) Marjorie.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Barbara.
(d) Nelly.

11. What does Virginia imagine appearing as a jellyfish?
(a) Her anger towards Nelly.
(b) A character in Mrs Dalloway.
(c) Her headache.
(d) Death.

12. What does Virginia put in the pocket of her cardigan?
(a) A large stone.
(b) A handful of pebbles and small rocks.
(c) Two suicide notes.
(d) Money.

13. Where is Leonard when Virginia goes to talk to him?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In the printing room.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In his study.

14. Why does Laura tell Richie he is a smart boy?
(a) He can fetch things from the cupboard.
(b) He can count to twenty.
(c) He can count to four.
(d) He can sift flour.

15. What has attracted a small crowd?
(a) The film activities.
(b) Cate Blanchett.
(c) A Chinese boy.
(d) Two young girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Laura doing with the blue bowl?

2. What language did Virginia hear sparrows using?

3. What annoys Leonard?

4. What does Laura seem to have learned through her time in the kitchen with Richie?

5. What is Virginia doing as she muses?

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