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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what profession is Nelly's calm compared?
(a) With that of an undertaker.
(b) With that of a patient nanny.
(c) With that of a test pilot.
(d) With that of an executioner.

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

3. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?
(a) The way the door has a cantilevered front extension, like a storm porch.
(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 two little red windows in it.

4. What is the very long chapter in Richard's novel concerned with?
(a) A woman giving birth.
(b) The uses of sandpaper.
(c) A meditation over the breaking of an egg.
(d) A woman shopping for nail polish.

5. What makes Virginia think of millinery?
(a) Birthdays.
(b) Harrods.
(c) Vanessa's elegance.
(d) The thrush on its pyre.

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

7. What is disturbing about Virginia kissing Vanessa?
(a) It is not quite innocent.
(b) It is done behind Nelly's back.
(c) It is done behind Leonard's back.
(d) It happens on the train to London.

8. Where will Laura put her robe?
(a) Over a chair.
(b) On a hook behind the door.
(c) On the end of the bed.
(d) In the wardrobe.

9. How many times will Clarissa Dalloway have kissed a woman?
(a) Once.
(b) Never.
(c) Twice.
(d) On many occasions.

10. Why can't Laura take the sleeping pills?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She feels guilty.
(c) They are too strong.
(d) They are past use-by date.

11. In what way does Oliver intend this film to be different?
(a) The hero will be an uncomplicated gay man.
(b) The hero will be an alien.
(c) The hero will die in the end.
(d) The hero will be a tortured gay man with HIV.

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

13. With which particular person does Laura contrast her own life?
(a) Clarissa.
(b) Barbara.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Kitty.

14. What preoccupies Virginia?
(a) The price of children's coats in Harrods.
(b) The train time-table.
(c) The fate of 'Clarissa' in her novel.
(d) Leonard's worry over her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nelly preparing for supper?

2. What is the toothbrush-holder made of?

3. What is Louis' sad observation?

4. What causes Laura's unexpressed desperation?

5. What does Clarissa imagine her roses appear to be, according to Mary's view of the world?

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