2. What has made Richard feel wonderful?
(a) The combination of drugs he has taken.
(b) The colors on his robe.
(c) The lovely day outside his gloomy apartment.
(d) The decision that he has made.

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

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

5. As she drives, in what does Laura find consolation?
(a) That her earrings match her bracelet.
(b) That she has remembered to bring her book.
(c) The impeccable way she has organized things.
(d) That the car is clean.

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

7. What is the cause of Mary's emotional distress?
(a) She knows Julia will never love her the way she needs.
(b) She is afraid Clarissa will steal Julia away from her.
(c) She is upset by her encounter with Clarissa.
(d) The trauma of going shopping and having to face sales clerks.

8. What does Clarissa imagine her roses appear to be, according to Mary's view of the world?
(a) Things of beauty and substance.
(b) Symbolic of transience.
(c) Symbolic of oppression.
(d) Unnecessary and expensive.

9. What can Laura see out of the hotel window?
(a) Cars on a freeway.
(b) A statue of Christ.
(c) A V-shaped plaza with a fountain.
(d) A row of shops and a fountain.

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

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

12. In Walter, what does Sally find unbearable?
(a) His vanity.
(b) His venal nature.
(c) His banality.
(d) His good looks.

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

14. 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.

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