View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rhoda offer to Percival in Section 5?
(a) Violets.
(b) Roses.
(c) Daisies.
(d) Begonias.

2. What is the first thing the reader learns in Section 5?
(a) That Bernard is divorced.
(b) That Jinny is married.
(c) That Percival has died.
(d) That Neville has moved.

3. What is Louis doing upon the commencement of his major monologue in Section 3?
(a) Meeting Susan.
(b) Writing.
(c) Meeting Bernard and Neville.
(d) Reading and eating.

4. In Section 7, where is Louis's new house?
(a) Leeds.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) London.
(d) Surrey.

5. As the reader encounters him in Section 7, toward whom does Neville express some resentment or jealousy?
(a) Susan.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what event in Bernard's life does the major news in Section 5 coincide?

2. What kind of insect does Woolf describe in the elaborate simile at the beginning of Section 7?

3. What word does Louis use to characterize himself in Section 3?

4. In Section 7, which two people does Susan name as those she "thinks sometimes of"?

5. Who does Bernard decide against comforting in Section 5?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 196 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample