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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How early are Vanessa and the children for their expected visit?
(a) Half an hour.
(b) Four hours.
(c) Two and a half hours.
(d) About an hour and a half.

3. Which character does Virginia wish to avoid?
(a) Vanessa.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) Nelly.
(d) Leonard.

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

5. When she was at school, Kitty was part of _________________________________.
(a) A group who dropped out of school before graduating.
(b) A Christian fundamentalist group.
(c) The dominant, popular group of cheerleaders and stars.
(d) The bookish group who hung around the library.

6. Why is Laura disappointed?
(a) The cake does not measure up to her hopes for it.
(b) Richie does not like the cake.
(c) The cake has risen too much.
(d) Richie does not appreciate that it is his father's birthday.

7. 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.

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

9. Which novel is Laura Brown reading?
(a) Virginia Woolf by Vanessa Bell
(b) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
(c) Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
(d) Mrs Dalloway by Vanessa Albee

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

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

12. How does Clarissa regard herself?
(a) As a failed artist.
(b) As specially loving.
(c) As an unlucky woman.
(d) As a fortunate woman.

13. Where does Virginia's body finally come to rest?
(a) Against a bridge piling at Southwark.
(b) Under a bridge in London.
(c) Under a jetty at Richmond.
(d) Against a bridge piling at Southease.

14. What is Richie nervous about?
(a) Licking the bowl.
(b) Measuring the flour.
(c) Breaking the eggs.
(d) Measuring the butter.

15. How many planes does Virginia see above her?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) None.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Virginia doing as she muses?

2. In what season of the year does this part of the story take place?

3. What worrying symptoms does she think about?

4. Why does Laura tell Richie he is a smart boy?

5. How does Virginia get along with her neighbors?

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