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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 causes Laura's unexpressed desperation?
(a) Her sorrows are ordinary and she knows it.
(b) Her realization that Richie will grow up to be gay.
(c) He belief that she will never live like Mrs. Dalloway.
(d) She feels trapped forever in an ordinary life.

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

3. What is the devil Virginia refers to?
(a) The man with the satchell.
(b) Nelly.
(c) Her writer's block.
(d) Her madness.

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

5. What surprises Sally about Oliver?
(a) He is not much different from his movie persona.
(b) That he is so short.
(c) That he is ordinary and ill-tempered.
(d) That he is gay.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does London mean to Virginia?

4. When she has to choose, what does Laura do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is suicide not an option for Laura?

5. What does Louis think of Clarissa?

6. Why has Virginia's attitude changed?

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

8. What is unusual about Louis' visit?

9. In what ways are Clarissa and Mary different?

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

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