View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is important about the imagery of the squirrel's tail?
(a) Its question mark shape links to Laura's musing about death.
(b) Its shape makes us question ourselves on environmental issues.
(c) It reminds us to look out for squirrels when we are driving.
(d) It's imagery never been used previously in literature.

2. What has made Richard feel wonderful?
(a) The combination of drugs he has taken.
(b) The colors on his robe.
(c) The lovely day outside his gloomy apartment.
(d) The decision that he has made.

3. What does Clarissa imagine her roses appear to be, according to Mary's view of the world?
(a) Unnecessary and expensive.
(b) Symbolic of oppression.
(c) Things of beauty and substance.
(d) Symbolic of transience.

4. What jewelry is Laura wearing?
(a) An ivory bangle.
(b) Gold chains and rings.
(c) An ivory pendant.
(d) Three ivory bangles.

5. What can Laura see out of the hotel window?
(a) A statue of Christ.
(b) Cars on a freeway.
(c) A row of shops and a fountain.
(d) A V-shaped plaza with a fountain.

6. What is Louis' sad observation?
(a) That aging is sad and tragic.
(b) That there is too much violence in the world.
(c) That life is a sour experience.
(d) That there is so little love in the world.

7. What genre of screenplay are they discussing?
(a) Thriller.
(b) Film noir.
(c) Musical.
(d) Drama.

8. What drove Clarissa to part from Richard over thirty years ago?
(a) Her desire to be famous.
(b) Her desire for a relatively ordinary life.
(c) He love for Louis and Sally.
(d) The power of her suburban morality.

9. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?
(a) The way the door has two little red windows in it.
(b) The way the door has a green-shuttered window in it.
(c) The size and shape of it compared to the main house.
(d) The way the door has a cantilevered front extension, like a storm porch.

10. What does Richie sense he and his father might have in common?
(a) Restlessness and a feeling of dislocation.
(b) The need for emotional stability in their lives, as embodied by Laura.
(c) A love of the arts.
(d) The need to be strong and withstand Laura's pressures.

11. What is Nelly preparing for supper?
(a) Beef Wellington.
(b) Beef with burgundy.
(c) Roast beef.
(d) Boiled beef.

12. What does Richard's empty chair reveal?
(a) Discarded food.
(b) The physical unpleasantness of mortal illness.
(c) The loneliness he has experienced.
(d) The extent of its disrepair and theecessity of replacing it.

13. Which character does Julia describe as strange?
(a) Mary.
(b) Richard.
(c) Clarissa.
(d) Louis.

14. How much of her book has Laura now read?
(a) All of it.
(b) Three quarters of it.
(c) More than a third of it.
(d) Half of it.

15. What is the devil Virginia refers to?
(a) Her writer's block.
(b) Her madness.
(c) The man with the satchell.
(d) Nelly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the toothbrush-holder made of?

2. What is Louis' profession?

3. With which particular person does Laura contrast her own life?

4. What makes Virginia think of millinery?

5. What does Nelly bring from London?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 526 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample