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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. Where is Clarissa when Willie Bass sees her?
(a) On the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 90th Street.
(b) On the corner of Eighth Avenue and King Boulevarde.
(c) On the corner of Eighth Street and Park Avenue
(d) On the corner of Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue.

2. In what season of the year does this part of the story take place?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Winter.

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

4. What does the word 'emanate' mean?
(a) To persuade people to join a religion.
(b) To become important.
(c) To flow from a source.
(d) To raise higher.

5. Where is this chapter set?
(a) New York in 1994.
(b) A London suburb in the year 1923.
(c) A london suburb in 1941.
(d) Richmond-on-Thames, 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Virginia imagine appearing as a jellyfish?

2. What literary device is represented by 'sinister beauty'?

3. Where is Walter Hardy heading?

4. What material is used for the counter top in Clarissa's kitchen?

5. What does Clarissa say might be a good omen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the utterance of the word 'hurl'?

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

3. What makes Clarissa Vaughan embarrassed?

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

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

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

7. Account for Virginia's idea that death means freedom.

8. What does Willie Bass think of Clarissa?

9. What does Virginia Woolf value about youth?

10. What is the significance of the literary prize that Richard has been awarded?

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