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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jinny characterize her social life as it is in Section 6?
(a) Altogether absent.
(b) Constant and vibrant.
(c) No longer important to her.
(d) Constant, but boring.

2. What is all that Neville possesses?
(a) A book of phrases.
(b) A bible.
(c) A large trunk.
(d) One bag.

3. How does Wolfe describe the birds' song at the beginning of the first section?
(a) "A disruptive cacophony."
(b) "Like the chiming of bells."
(c) "Barely audible."
(d) "A blank melody outside."

4. Where do we find the sun at the beginning of Section 7?
(a) "Low in the sky."
(b) "Lowest in the sky."
(c) "Lower in the sky."
(d) "High in the sky."

5. What time is it when Bernard begins his last monologue of Section 8?
(a) Midday.
(b) Very early in the morning.
(c) Nearly bed-time.
(d) Very late at night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the characters doing as their monologues progress in Section 8?

2. Who is the first character to speak?

3. How does Rhoda react to the party in Section 3?

4. Where has the sun moved to at the beginning of Section 6?

5. As the reader encounters him in Section 7, toward whom does Neville express some resentment or jealousy?

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