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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 Leonard want Virginia to do?
(a) To come to bed by 11.
(b) To do as she pleases.
(c) To make boeuf en daube.
(d) To come to bed at once.

2. What is Louis' sad observation?
(a) That there is too much violence in the world.
(b) That aging is sad and tragic.
(c) That life is a sour experience.
(d) That there is so little love in the world.

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

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

5. In what way does Oliver intend this film to be different?
(a) The hero will be an uncomplicated gay man.
(b) The hero will die in the end.
(c) The hero will be an alien.
(d) The hero will be a tortured gay man with HIV.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nelly bring from London?

2. What drove Clarissa to part from Richard over thirty years ago?

3. In Walter, what does Sally find unbearable?

4. According to Virginia, what makes a person technically insane?

5. What prompts Laura's fury?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Louis think of Clarissa?

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

5. What are some of the ways in which Laura justifies to herself her trip to the hotel just in order to read?

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

7. What is unusual about Louis' visit?

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

9. What do the two women exchange as Laura prepares to return home?

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

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