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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When she was at school, Kitty was part of _________________________________.

2. What does Virginia fear?

3. How does Virginia describe Ralph?

4. How does Virginia get along with her neighbors?

5. What crisis looms before tea?

Short Essay Questions

1. Comment on an aspect of the Prologue's final paragraph.

2. What is unusual about the headache Virginia suffers?

3. Of what significance is the bird that Laura briefly glimpses?

4. What does Virginia Woolf value about youth?

5. What went wrong with the relationship of Clarissa and Richard when they were younger?

6. For what reasons has Virginia Woolf decided to end her life?

7. What is significant about Vanessa's visit to Hogarth House?

8. When Dan returned from the war, why was he given special acclaim?

9. What is significant about Oliver St. Ives?

10. What is the 'inner faculty' that Virginia refers to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

'In the debate about life versus suicide that tracks across the pages of Cunningham's The Hours, there is no winner.' Do you agree?

Essay Topic 2

Much of the novel, The Hours, deals with characters' views of themselves and their fears concerning failure. Are these people actually successful, and in which ways or spheres of endeavor?

Essay Topic 3

How can knowledge of the context in which literature was composed deepen a reader's appreciation of the text? In your answer, refer closely to The Hours by Michael Cunningham, but you might expand your response by including reference to an additional text.

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