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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 Leonard when Virginia goes to talk to him?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In his study.
(c) In the garden.
(d) In the printing room.

2. What sudden change in Virginia has occurred?
(a) She is no longer beautiful.
(b) She seems too happy.
(c) Her hair is quickly going white.
(d) Her hands look arthritic.

3. How does Virginia see herself?
(a) As a great writer.
(b) As a privileged wife.
(c) As a closet lesbian.
(d) As merely a gifted eccentric.

4. What is Laura doing with the blue bowl?
(a) Washing it up.
(b) Admiring it.
(c) Beating butter and sugar in it.
(d) Sifting flour into it.

5. Why does Laura tell Richie he is a smart boy?
(a) He can count to four.
(b) He can count to twenty.
(c) He can sift flour.
(d) He can fetch things from the cupboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clarissa regard herself?

2. What is the reason for the slabs of italic type in this chapter?

3. What does a good house speak of?

4. What has appeared in the window-box of the woman next door?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Comment on an aspect of the Prologue's final paragraph.

5. What is significant about the kiss Laura gives to Kitty?

6. What does Willie Bass think of Clarissa?

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

8. What makes Clarissa Vaughan embarrassed?

9. What important writing quality does Virginia exhibit?

10. What are Laura's feelings about her son?

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