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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Section 5, how does Bernard describe Percival's presence in the lives of the other characters?
(a) As spiritual.
(b) As didactic.
(c) As a mediator.
(d) As a conductor.

2. In the beginning of Section 5, what state does Woolf describe the sun as being in?
(a) Nearly its brightest.
(b) Its most uncompromising.
(c) Its dullest.
(d) Its most merciful.

3. Who do Bernard and Rhoda assert Percival was in love with?
(a) Neville.
(b) Susan.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Jinny.

4. Where does Bernard travel towards the end of his major monologue in Section 5?
(a) Jinny's house.
(b) Neville's flat.
(c) Louis' office.
(d) Susan's home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What significant fact do we learn about Louis's love-life in the course of his major Section 7 monologue?

2. When Neville hears the significant news in Section 5, to what does he compare it?

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

4. To which poet does Bernard compare himself to the point of attempting imitation in Section 3?

5. How does Rhoda characterize herself at the end of Section 3?

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