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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the characters muses on a book that he wishes to keep when he is older?
(a) Neville.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Susan.

2. Who remarks, "The world is entire, and I am outside of it . . ."?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Neville.
(d) Bernard.

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

4. How does Rhoda react to the party in Section 3?
(a) She is nauseous and delirious.
(b) She is scared and nervous.
(c) She is bored and disinterested.
(d) She is excited and confident.

5. What is the first speaker musing on at the beginning of Section 3?
(a) Classical poets.
(b) Whether there is an afterlife.
(c) The nature of identity.
(d) The form of waves.

6. Which of the children struggles with mathematics?
(a) Neville.
(b) Louis.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Susan.

7. What are the boys doing when the monologues in Section 2 return to their perspective?
(a) Playing at recess.
(b) Heading to classes.
(c) Walking to lunch.
(d) Going to chapel.

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

9. Who decides to "put off my hopeless desire to be Susan, to be Jinny"?
(a) Mrs. Constable.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Biddy.
(d) Rhoda.

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

11. Which character opens Section 2's monologues?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Susan.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Louis.

12. What is the name of the boys' headmaster?
(a) Percival.
(b) Dr. Bloom.
(c) Dr. Crane.
(d) Dr. Ramsay.

13. Who is primarily focused on appearances early in Section 2?
(a) Louis.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Susan.

14. What are the children doing as the novel begins?
(a) Saying grace before dinner.
(b) Waking up.
(c) Going to bed.
(d) Playing in the garden.

15. When he is alone, who "is nothing" in Section 4?
(a) Neville.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asserts, "The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them"?

2. Which of the female characters seems most content with her place in life when the reader encounters her in Section 3?

3. After reading the opening to Section 4, about what time of day is it?

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

5. Who "only understands cries of love, hate, rage and pain"?

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