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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. With what profession is Nelly's calm compared?
(a) With that of a patient nanny.
(b) With that of an undertaker.
(c) With that of a test pilot.
(d) With that of an executioner.

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

3. How has Laura set the table?
(a) With a starched white cloth.
(b) With a serviceable oilcloth.
(c) With a batik cloth she bought in Bali.
(d) With a set of white place-mats.

4. What jewelry is Laura wearing?
(a) Gold chains and rings.
(b) An ivory bangle.
(c) An ivory pendant.
(d) Three ivory bangles.

5. What surprises Sally about Oliver?
(a) That he is gay.
(b) That he is so short.
(c) He is not much different from his movie persona.
(d) That he is ordinary and ill-tempered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Virginia think of millinery?

2. Why does Clarissa imagine Julia despises her?

3. What does Richard call death?

4. What prompts Laura's fury?

5. What do Virginia and Vanessa do behind Nelly's back?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways are Clarissa and Mary different?

2. Why does Laura delay joining her husband in bed as his birthday draws to an end?

3. Why has Virginia's attitude changed?

4. Which character is referred to as the subjugated Amazon Queen?

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

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

7. Over what matters concerning Julia does Clarissa worry?

8. What is unusual about Louis' visit?

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

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

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