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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Clarissa take the stairs?
(a) She recognizes the need to keep fit.
(b) The exercise energizes her.
(c) The elevator smells bad.
(d) She fears being trapped in the elevator.

4. What sudden change in Virginia has occurred?
(a) She seems too happy.
(b) She is no longer beautiful.
(c) Her hair is quickly going white.
(d) Her hands look arthritic.

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

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

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

8. What is the problem with the faces of George Washington?
(a) They have been destroyed by weather.
(b) They have inappropriate expressions.
(c) They don't quite match.
(d) One is missing its nose and the other is eroded.

9. 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 Park Avenue
(c) On the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 90th Street.
(d) On the corner of Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue.

10. What pet-name does Laura have for Richie?
(a) Baby.
(b) Richo.
(c) Wog.
(d) Bug.

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

12. In what season of the year does this part of the story take place?
(a) Spring.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

13. To what is Laura's love for Richie compared?
(a) Appetite.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Food.
(d) Flowers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the word 'obfuscation'?

2. Which character does Virginia wish to avoid?

3. What does Virginia imagine appearing as a jellyfish?

4. When she was at school, Kitty was part of _________________________________.

5. How does Virginia feel around servants?

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