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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Neville declare himself to be in Section 3?
(a) An historian.
(b) A poet.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) A lover.

2. By the end of Section 6, what can we say for sure about Neville's feelings towards Percival?
(a) That he felt Percival unduely held a position of high-regard.
(b) That he hated Percival.
(c) That Percival confused him.
(d) That he was in love with Percival.

3. Which of the characters recognizes themselves as the group's strongest member in Section 5?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Susan.
(c) Neville.
(d) Louis.

4. Whose "mind is far too complex to be roused by any single activity"?
(a) Louis.
(b) Susan.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Neville.

5. Who instigated the kiss in the garden?
(a) Louis.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Susan.
(d) Jinny.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you characterize Neville's attitude as he waits for the others to arrive in Section 4?

2. Which of the speakers expresses an appreciation for natural beauty in Section 3?

3. Who decides to "put off my hopeless desire to be Susan, to be Jinny"?

4. In Section 2, Miss Lambert sits under a picture of whom?

5. To what does the narrator compare the sound of the waves at the end of Section 3's beginning?

(see the answer key)

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