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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where would Clarissa like her ashes to be scattered?
(a) Wherever Richard's are scattered.
(b) Over the lake in Central Park.
(c) On the big dune at Wellfleet.
(d) In her own garden.

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

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

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

5. What does Leonard want Virginia to do?
(a) To come to bed at once.
(b) To make boeuf en daube.
(c) To come to bed by 11.
(d) To do as she pleases.

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

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

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

9. To Clarissa, what does Mary resemble?
(a) A glamor-puss.
(b) A stray dog.
(c) An Amazon.
(d) A feral child.

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

11. What does Richard call death?
(a) 'The black evil'.
(b) 'The scary monster'.
(c) 'The green silence'.
(d) ''The black silence'.

12. What makes Richie frown in concentration?
(a) Trying to make out the letters on the cake.
(b) Trying not to spill crumbs as he eats the birthday cake.
(c) Making a wish as the birthday candles burn.
(d) The job of removing the candles from the cake.

13. 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.

14. What battle has been won?
(a) Virginia's tussle with Nelly.
(b) Ypres.
(c) Leonard's campaign to move to London.
(d) Virginia's campaign to move to London.

15. When she has to choose, what does Laura do?
(a) She drives into Los Angeles.
(b) She drives to Pasadena.
(c) She drives along the Pasadena Freeway.
(d) She heads off back the way she came.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the toothbrush-holder made of?

2. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?

3. What makes Virginia think of millinery?

4. What is disturbing about Virginia kissing Vanessa?

5. What is the cause of Mary's emotional distress?

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