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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 Clarissa imagine her roses appear to be, according to Mary's view of the world?
(a) Things of beauty and substance.
(b) Unnecessary and expensive.
(c) Symbolic of transience.
(d) Symbolic of oppression.

2. Which character does Julia describe as strange?
(a) Richard.
(b) Mary.
(c) Louis.
(d) Clarissa.

3. What preoccupies Virginia?
(a) Leonard's worry over her.
(b) The train time-table.
(c) The fate of 'Clarissa' in her novel.
(d) The price of children's coats in Harrods.

4. What is the cause of Mary's emotional distress?
(a) The trauma of going shopping and having to face sales clerks.
(b) She is afraid Clarissa will steal Julia away from her.
(c) She knows Julia will never love her the way she needs.
(d) She is upset by her encounter with Clarissa.

5. How many times will Clarissa Dalloway have kissed a woman?
(a) Twice.
(b) Once.
(c) Never.
(d) On many occasions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Louis' profession?

2. As she drives, in what does Laura find consolation?

3. What makes Richie frown in concentration?

4. From the description at the beginning of this chapter, what would be a good word to use to describe Walter Hardy's expression?

5. What makes Virginia shudder?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is suicide not an option for Laura?

2. What makes Virginia, at this point, begin to reconsider killing off her character, Mrs. Dalloway?

3. What writing decision of Virginia's is prompted by her success in her campaign to move back to London?

4. What does Louis think of Clarissa?

5. In what ways are Clarissa and Mary different?

6. Why has Virginia's attitude changed?

7. What are Laura's rather bitter hopes about heaven?

8. What does Virginia see as a kind of devil?

9. What is Richard's most precious memory of Clarissa?

10. Why does Walter want to buy his young partner a present?

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