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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Clarissa imagine her rejected future taking place?
(a) Italy or Spain.
(b) Italy or France.
(c) France and Spain.
(d) Ireland or Australia.

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

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

4. How does Virginia describe Ralph?
(a) As a handsome ditherer.
(b) As daring.
(c) As handsome but amoral.
(d) As handsome and callow.

5. What has appeared in the window-box of the woman next door?
(a) A rose.
(b) A dandelion.
(c) Petunias.
(d) A single gerbera.

6. What is a sarcophagus?
(a) A person who eats flesh.
(b) A kind of bone cancer.
(c) A stone coffin.
(d) A sarcastic Greek.

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

8. Where is Walter Hardy heading?
(a) For Washington Square Park.
(b) For Madison Square Garden.
(c) For Prince Street station.
(d) For Central Park.

9. How does Laura imagine the birthday cake?
(a) Better than she could by downtown.
(b) As better than anything in a magazine.
(c) Equal to anything in the shops.
(d) As good as anything in a magazine.

10. What is Virginia doing as she muses?
(a) Working at Hogarth Press.
(b) Walking in the streets of Richmond.
(c) Sitting at her desk during a writing session.
(d) Having a bath.

11. Why did Barbara come to New York?
(a) To open a florist shop.
(b) To escape a disapproving family.
(c) To sing opera.
(d) To be near her lover, an opera singer.

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

13. What does a good house speak of?
(a) Good taste.
(b) The social standing of the owners.
(c) Comfort and safety.
(d) The skill of the architect and builders.

14. What does Leonard worship above all else?
(a) Accompaniment.
(b) Accomplishment.
(c) Commitment.
(d) Companionship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laura think of the shadow of the passing bird?

2. Where is this chapter set?

3. What is the problem with the faces of George Washington?

4. What is disturbing Laura?

5. What is the age difference between Virginia and Vanessa?

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