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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Clarissa imagine Julia despises her?
(a) For her love for Richard.
(b) For depriving her of a father.
(c) For her dislike of Mary.
(d) For her intolerance of smoking.

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

3. Who wears gold-rimmed glasses?
(a) Sally.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) Oliver St. Ives.
(d) Walter Hardy.

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

5. How does Virginia describe Vanessa's hand?
(a) Skinny.
(b) Elegant and graceful.
(c) Plump.
(d) Moist and fat.

6. What is the toothbrush-holder made of?
(a) Glass.
(b) Stainless steel.
(c) Porcelain.
(d) Wicker.

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. How has Laura set the table?
(a) With a batik cloth she bought in Bali.
(b) With a set of white place-mats.
(c) With a serviceable oilcloth.
(d) With a starched white cloth.

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

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

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

15. What is Clarissa nervous about?
(a) The way her new lipstick will make her look.
(b) Whther or not Julia likes green tea and sugared ginger.
(c) The way she ought to frame her comments to Julia.
(d) The tic that always manifests itself if she is under stress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What preoccupies Virginia?

2. Where would Clarissa like her ashes to be scattered?

3. What is Louis' sad observation?

4. As she drives, in what does Laura find consolation?

5. What jewelry is Laura wearing?

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