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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?
(a) Their relationship has laster twenty-seven years.
(b) They dislike each other, but stay together in order not to lose face.
(c) One is an artist and the other is a stock-broker.
(d) They are a couple who never fight.

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

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

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

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

6. How many times has Laura tried to get the cake right?
(a) Once.
(b) Three times.
(c) Twice.
(d) She gave up and bought one.

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

8. Where will Laura put her robe?
(a) In the wardrobe.
(b) On a hook behind the door.
(c) On the end of the bed.
(d) Over a chair.

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

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

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

12. At what time of day does Virginia set off for a walk?
(a) Dusk--early evening.
(b) Mid-day.
(c) About half an hour before sunset.
(d) In the middle of the night.

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

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

15. Why can't Laura take the sleeping pills?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) They are too strong.
(c) She feels guilty.
(d) They are past use-by date.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do both Clarissa and Louis notice about each other?

2. What does Richie sense he and his father might have in common?

3. What is Clarissa nervous about?

4. What is Nelly preparing for supper?

5. When she has to choose, what does Laura do?

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