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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Virginia put in the pocket of her cardigan?
(a) Two suicide notes.
(b) A large stone.
(c) A handful of pebbles and small rocks.
(d) Money.

2. What language did Virginia hear sparrows using?
(a) English.
(b) Gudjurat.
(c) Latin.
(d) Greek.

3. What is the maid's response to Leonard's alarm?
(a) She panics and starts to cry.
(b) She panics and runs to the kitchen.
(c) She turns her head away and conceals a smile of triumph.
(d) She goes to the phone to call the police.

4. How does Clarissa think we ought first to measure people?
(a) By their kindness and ability to be strong when needed.
(b) By the strength of their devotion and their commitment to art.
(c) By their moral strength and religious devotions.
(d) By their kindness and capacity for devotion.

5. What literary device is used in the phrase 'it runs like veins of brilliant metal'?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metalanguage.
(d) Semantic.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Vanessa last visit?

2. How old was Richard when he and Clarissa argued?

3. What crisis looms before tea?

4. What is Laura doing with the blue bowl?

5. What will prompt Dan to say: 'Get a load of this'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about Oliver St. Ives?

2. When Dan returned from the war, why was he given special acclaim?

3. Of what significance is the bird that Laura briefly glimpses?

4. What is unusual about the headache Virginia suffers?

5. What is notable about Richard's good fortune?

6. Why did Virginia not engage more with Nelly over the matter of the day's menu?

7. What impression of Leonard Woolf is given in this chapter?

8. What does Virginia Woolf value about youth?

9. Comment on the style of the Prologue to The Hours by Michael Cunningham.

10. Why is Richard's nickname for Clarissa ('Mrs Dalloway') an appropriate choice?

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