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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 do both Clarissa and Louis notice about each other?
(a) That each is well-preserved for their age.
(b) The extent of their aging in five years.
(c) That each has has plastic surgery.
(d) That each is nervous for Richard.

2. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?
(a) They are a couple who never fight.
(b) They dislike each other, but stay together in order not to lose face.
(c) Their relationship has laster twenty-seven years.
(d) One is an artist and the other is a stock-broker.

3. What does Richard call death?
(a) ''The black silence'.
(b) 'The scary monster'.
(c) 'The black evil'.
(d) 'The green silence'.

4. What world does Laura feel she now inhabits?
(a) A holistic zone of healing.
(b) A twilight zone of London in the twenties.
(c) A world away from the mundane.
(d) A twilight world of Los Angeles smog.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?

2. What is Clarissa nervous about?

3. What will haunt Clarissa's life?

4. What makes Virginia shudder?

5. What battle has been won?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Over what matters concerning Julia does Clarissa worry?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why has Virginia's attitude changed?

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

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