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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Richard burn incense?
(a) To cover smells of garlic in the kitchen.
(b) As part of a religious ritual.
(c) He finds the fragrance helps his poetry.
(d) To cover the smells of his illness.

8. What worries Leonard about Virginia's behavior?
(a) She is being rude to Nelly.
(b) She is refusing to eat.
(c) She is unable to work.
(d) She is relying too much on coffee and alcohol.

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

10. What color does not look well on Sally?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Pink.
(d) Green.

11. How does Clarissa think we ought first to measure people?
(a) By their moral strength and religious devotions.
(b) By their kindness and capacity for devotion.
(c) By the strength of their devotion and their commitment to art.
(d) By their kindness and ability to be strong when needed.

12. Who is described as being foreign-looking, with a Roman nose?
(a) Clarissa Vaughan.
(b) Laura Brown.
(c) Clarissa Dalloway.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

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

14. What does the word 'emanate' mean?
(a) To raise higher.
(b) To persuade people to join a religion.
(c) To flow from a source.
(d) To become important.

15. What material is used for the counter top in Clarissa's kitchen?
(a) Tiles.
(b) Granite.
(c) Formica.
(d) Terra cotta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character does Virginia wish to avoid?

2. What is the woman under the arch doing?

3. What does 'the new world--the rescued world' refer to?

4. What sort of top is Clarissa wearing?

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

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