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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 Dalloway.
(b) Laura Brown.
(c) Clarissa Vaughan.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

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

3. Her memories of 'taking the Host' show us what about Laura?
(a) That she used to work in hospitality.
(b) That she used to be a Catholic.
(c) That she had led a promiscuous life.
(d) That she is courteous.

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

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

6. When does Virginia say a person feels free to do anything?
(a) In the brief time when one is young.
(b) In old age.
(c) When one lives in permissive times.
(d) When one has reached maturity.

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

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

9. What color is Laura's gown?
(a) White.
(b) A soft green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Pale aqua.

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

11. What happened to Kitty's husband during the War?
(a) He was jailed as a conscientious objector.
(b) He was a prisoner of war in Germany.
(c) He survived the horrors of the Burma Railway.
(d) He was a prisoner of war in the Philippines.

12. What language did Virginia hear sparrows using?
(a) English.
(b) Greek.
(c) Latin.
(d) Gudjurat.

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

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

15. Who gives Clarissa the nickname 'Mrs Dalloway'?
(a) Sally
(b) Richard
(c) Dennis
(d) Virginia

Short Answer Questions

1. Which novel is Laura Brown reading?

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

3. Why is she 'allowed' to be self-indulgent at the moment?

4. What does the word 'ephemera' mean?

5. Which character does Virginia wish to avoid?

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