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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the female characters does Neville express respect for?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Biddy.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Susan.

2. To which poet does Bernard compare himself to the point of attempting imitation in Section 3?
(a) Robert Burns.
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) John Keats.

3. What does Bernard acknowledge about his and the other boys' first night at school?
(a) That it is the first time sleeping in a new place.
(b) That it is the first time apart from their parents.
(c) That it is the first time apart from their sisters.
(d) That it is the first time far from home.

4. What does Bernard describe during his first line of monologue?
(a) An elephant.
(b) Fruity smells.
(c) A globe.
(d) A spider's web.

5. What do we learn from the end of Louis's major monologue in Section 6?
(a) That he is having an affair with Jinny.
(b) That he and Neville have begun an affair.
(c) That he is having an affair with Rhoda.
(d) That he has moved in with Susan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why have the characters gathered in Section 4?

3. What is the dominant image in the beginning of Section 2?

4. Who repeats variations of the phrase, "I will gather my flowers and present them--Oh! to whom?"

5. Who hears "something stamping"?

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