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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. For whom does Virginia leave notes?
(a) Vanessa and Clarissa
(b) Leonard and Vanessa.
(c) Richard and Clarissa.
(d) Leonard and Clarissa.

2. What is the reason for the slabs of italic type in this chapter?
(a) They signal a time-slip.
(b) They are to indicate the novel Laura is reading.
(c) They indicate sections that don't matter to the overall story.
(d) They are to indicate the character's innermost thoughts.

3. What does the word 'ubiquitous' tell us about the Jack Russell terriers.
(a) That they are really small dogs.
(b) That they are big dogs that many people own.
(c) That they have become very common. Lots of people seem to have them.
(d) That they are noisy little pests and many people object to them.

4. What can Virginia feel inside herself?
(a) A parallel, purer self--like a soul.
(b) Hunger--both to eat and to write.
(c) A black, evil soul.
(d) A cancer growing aggressively.

5. What has appeared in the window-box of the woman next door?
(a) A dandelion.
(b) Petunias.
(c) A single gerbera.
(d) A rose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Her memories of 'taking the Host' show us what about Laura?

2. What is the maid's response to Leonard's alarm?

3. Who is Louis?

4. What happened to Kitty's husband during the War?

5. What is Virginia doing as she muses?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Clarissa thinks of Richard's illness, what makes her resentful?

2. What is significant about Vanessa's visit to Hogarth House?

3. Why is Clarissa hurt about Sally going out to lunch with Oliver St. Ives?

4. What does Willie Bass think of Clarissa?

5. What is Richie's attitude toward his mother?

6. What does Virginia Woolf value about youth?

7. Why is Laura fearful of Richie making an error as he helps her make the cake?

8. How does Laura plan to compensate for her neglect of Dan and Richie at breakfast?

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

10. Why does Virginia wish to avoid Nelly on this particular morning?

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