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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clarissa say might be a good omen?
(a) Not catching the elevator to Richard's apartment.
(b) Buying the flowers.
(c) Opening Richard's room to light.
(d) Catching a glimpse of a movie star.

2. What literary device is represented by 'sinister beauty'?
(a) Dactyl.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

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

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

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

6. What can Virginia feel inside herself?
(a) A parallel, purer self--like a soul.
(b) A cancer growing aggressively.
(c) A black, evil soul.
(d) Hunger--both to eat and to write.

7. Where is Clarissa when Willie Bass sees her?
(a) On the corner of Eighth Avenue and King Boulevarde.
(b) On the corner of Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue.
(c) On the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 90th Street.
(d) On the corner of Eighth Street and Park Avenue

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

9. What does writing, when inspired, give to Virginia?
(a) Money.
(b) A sense of timelessness.
(c) A kind of madness.
(d) Profound satisfaction.

10. Where is this chapter set?
(a) Richmond-on-Thames, 1941.
(b) A London suburb in the year 1923.
(c) New York in 1994.
(d) A london suburb in 1941.

11. How old was Richard when he and Clarissa argued?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Forty.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twenty.

12. What is the meaning of the word 'obfuscation'?
(a) Darkly obscure.
(b) Obese.
(c) Objectionable.
(d) Fussy.

13. What does Leonard intend to do when he goes upstairs?
(a) To sit and wait for Virginia.
(b) To read letters.
(c) To have an afternoon nap.
(d) To listen to the news on the radio.

14. What sort of top is Clarissa wearing?
(a) An elegant silk shirt.
(b) A man's cotton shirt.
(c) A blue turtleneck.
(d) A knitted top.

15. Why is she 'allowed' to be self-indulgent at the moment?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) Her husband has just confirmed how much he loves her.
(c) She is hoping she is pregnant.
(d) She has just finished a diet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is perverse about Richard's good fortune?

2. What is the reason for the slabs of italic type in this chapter?

3. What is disturbing Laura?

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

5. Why was Oliver dropped from his leading role in a thriller?

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