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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 genre of screenplay are they discussing?
(a) Drama.
(b) Film noir.
(c) Musical.
(d) Thriller.

2. What is Clarissa nervous about?
(a) The way her new lipstick will make her look.
(b) The way she ought to frame her comments to Julia.
(c) Whther or not Julia likes green tea and sugared ginger.
(d) The tic that always manifests itself if she is under stress.

3. What does Nelly bring from London?
(a) China tea and digestive biscuits.
(b) A child's coat from Harrods.
(c) Jasmine tea and melting moments.
(d) China tea and sugared ginger.

4. What does Richie sense he and his father might have in common?
(a) The need for emotional stability in their lives, as embodied by Laura.
(b) The need to be strong and withstand Laura's pressures.
(c) A love of the arts.
(d) Restlessness and a feeling of dislocation.

5. What makes Richie frown in concentration?
(a) Making a wish as the birthday candles burn.
(b) Trying not to spill crumbs as he eats the birthday cake.
(c) The job of removing the candles from the cake.
(d) Trying to make out the letters on the cake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?

2. What is important about the imagery of the squirrel's tail?

3. What does Clarissa imagine her roses appear to be, according to Mary's view of the world?

4. What does Laura intend to do in the hotel room?

5. What makes Virginia think of millinery?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What gives Laura the feeling that she has actually succeeded in achieving a kind of perfection?

3. What does Louis think of Clarissa?

4. What distracts Laura as she gets out of her car at Mrs. Latch's house?

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

6. Why has Virginia's attitude changed?

7. In what ways are Clarissa and Mary different?

8. What is Sally's reaction to Walter's present-buying?

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

10. Why is suicide not an option for Laura?

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