The Hours Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Hours Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Virginia shudder?
(a) Cemeteries.
(b) Boiled beef.
(c) The song of the dying thrush.
(d) The strong east wind.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What will haunt Clarissa's life?
(a) Her fear of suicide.
(b) Her fear of flowers.
(c) The memory of the kiss.
(d) Her fear of being a lesbian.

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

10. What do Virginia and Vanessa do behind Nelly's back?
(a) Eat digestive biscuits.
(b) Squabble.
(c) Kiss.
(d) Eat sugared ginger.

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

12. What is Louis' profession?
(a) He is an actor.
(b) He is a drama teacher.
(c) He is a travel agent.
(d) He is a farmer.

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

14. What surprises Sally about Oliver?
(a) He is not much different from his movie persona.
(b) That he is ordinary and ill-tempered.
(c) That he is so short.
(d) That he is gay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Virginia, what makes a person technically insane?

2. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?

3. How many times has Laura tried to get the cake right?

4. What is important about the imagery of the squirrel's tail?

5. From the description at the beginning of this chapter, what would be a good word to use to describe Walter Hardy's expression?

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