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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. Why can't Laura take the sleeping pills?
(a) They are too strong.
(b) She feels guilty.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) They are past use-by date.

2. What prompts Laura's fury?
(a) Dan secretly laughing at Laura's efforts.
(b) Dan being off-hand with Richie.
(c) Dan's spittle on the cake.
(d) Dan being unable to blow out the candles.

3. From the description at the beginning of this chapter, what would be a good word to use to describe Walter Hardy's expression?
(a) Sarcastic.
(b) Hang-dog.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Inscrutable.

4. As she drives, in what does Laura find consolation?
(a) That her earrings match her bracelet.
(b) The impeccable way she has organized things.
(c) That she has remembered to bring her book.
(d) That the car is clean.

5. What is disturbing about Virginia kissing Vanessa?
(a) It happens on the train to London.
(b) It is done behind Leonard's back.
(c) It is done behind Nelly's back.
(d) It is not quite innocent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre of screenplay are they discussing?

2. How many times will Clarissa Dalloway have kissed a woman?

3. In Walter, what does Sally find unbearable?

4. What surprises Sally about Oliver?

5. Where does Clarissa find Richard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is suicide not an option for Laura?

2. Over what matters concerning Julia does Clarissa worry?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why has Virginia's attitude changed?

9. What is unusual about Louis' visit?

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

(see the answer keys)

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