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

2. Where will Laura put her robe?
(a) Over a chair.
(b) On the end of the bed.
(c) In the wardrobe.
(d) On a hook behind the door.

3. What has made Richard feel wonderful?
(a) The decision that he has made.
(b) The colors on his robe.
(c) The combination of drugs he has taken.
(d) The lovely day outside his gloomy apartment.

4. What does Laura intend to do in the hotel room?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Read Pride and Prejudice.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Read Mrs Dalloway.

5. How does this chapter begin?
(a) With the ordinary routines and rituals of going to bed.
(b) With a cynical comment on married life.
(c) With Richie having a nightmare.
(d) With Laura feeling ashamed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times has Laura tried to get the cake right?

2. What can Laura see out of the hotel window?

3. Which character does Julia describe as strange?

4. Who does Laura desire?

5. In what way does Oliver intend this film to be different?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is unusual about Louis' visit?

3. What is ironic about Richard's apartment being open to the light?

4. What does Louis think of Clarissa?

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

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

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

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

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

10. In what ways are Clarissa and Mary different?

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