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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the characters doing as their monologues progress in Section 8?
(a) Going to Percival's grave.
(b) Riding to Elvedon together.
(c) Walking together through the streets.
(d) They are still in the restaurant, eating.

2. What kind of insect does Woolf describe in the elaborate simile at the beginning of Section 7?
(a) An ant.
(b) A dragonfly.
(c) A moth.
(d) A beetle.

3. How does Bernard characterize his last day at school?
(a) An occasion for tears.
(b) One final ceremony.
(c) As ambiguous in significance.
(d) An occasion for laughter.

4. Why is one of the characters not permitted to go on the walk in Section 1?
(a) The character is considered too sickly.
(b) The character has to picked up by an aunt.
(c) The character has to go to the playing fields.
(d) The character has to finish grammar exercises.

5. Who repeats variations of the phrase, "I will gather my flowers and present them--Oh! to whom?"
(a) Jinny.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Susan.
(d) Bernard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first of the female speakers in Section 3?

2. Who is picking flowers alone in the novel's first section?

3. In Section 7, how does the poem which Louis muses on begin?

4. Who is this section's only speaker?

5. Who professes, without reservation, "Life will divide us"?

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