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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 an executioner.
(c) With that of a patient nanny.
(d) With that of a test pilot.

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

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

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

5. What does Laura remember being sold in novelty shops?
(a) Cans of peanuts.
(b) Cans of boiled candy.
(c) Plastic cockroaches.
(d) Candles.

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

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

8. What is important about the imagery of the squirrel's tail?
(a) Its question mark shape links to Laura's musing about death.
(b) It's imagery never been used previously in literature.
(c) It reminds us to look out for squirrels when we are driving.
(d) Its shape makes us question ourselves on environmental issues.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Clarissa nervous about?

2. What genre of screenplay are they discussing?

3. How does Virginia describe Vanessa's hand?

4. What surprises Sally about Oliver?

5. Who wears gold-rimmed glasses?

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