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

3. What does London mean to Virginia?
(a) Crowds and complications.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Fear.

4. How does this chapter begin?
(a) With the ordinary routines and rituals of going to bed.
(b) With a cynical comment on married life.
(c) With Richie having a nightmare.
(d) With Laura feeling ashamed.

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

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

7. What does Laura intend to do in the hotel room?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Read Mrs Dalloway.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Read Pride and Prejudice.

8. What does Laura feel herself to be?
(a) Ghostlike: a presence that perceives.
(b) Loving and dutiful.
(c) Airy: like a wandering wisp of wind.
(d) Ungrateful and guilty.

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

10. What does Nelly bring from London?
(a) Jasmine tea and melting moments.
(b) China tea and sugared ginger.
(c) A child's coat from Harrods.
(d) China tea and digestive biscuits.

11. What causes Laura's unexpressed desperation?
(a) She feels trapped forever in an ordinary life.
(b) Her sorrows are ordinary and she knows it.
(c) Her realization that Richie will grow up to be gay.
(d) He belief that she will never live like Mrs. Dalloway.

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

13. What world does Laura feel she now inhabits?
(a) A twilight zone of London in the twenties.
(b) A world away from the mundane.
(c) A twilight world of Los Angeles smog.
(d) A holistic zone of healing.

14. What does the unusual light in Richard's apartment reveal?
(a) His astonishing taste in art.
(b) That he really needs to fire his cleaning lady.
(c) The way the illness has ravaged his face and body.
(d) The flaws and smallness of his life's detritus.

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