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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is picking flowers alone in the novel's first section?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Louis.
(c) Susan.
(d) Rhoda.

3. What is Louis's profession when the reader encounters him in Section 3?
(a) Banker.
(b) Poet.
(c) Clerk.
(d) Chef.

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

5. What does the italicized prose at the beginning of the first section describe?
(a) The clouds covering the sun.
(b) The sun at midday.
(c) A day yet to begin.
(d) The moon rising in the sky.

6. In Section 4, how would you characterize the characters' attitude towards each other?
(a) Mostly favorable.
(b) Generally negative.
(c) Elation.
(d) Indifferent.

7. Who professes, without reservation, "Life will divide us"?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Neville.
(c) Percival.
(d) Louis.

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

9. In what city is Bernard in the beginning of Section 4?
(a) Ipswich.
(b) London.
(c) Liverpool.
(d) Leeds.

10. Which of the girls is first to speak in Section 2?
(a) Miss Lambert.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Susan.

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

12. Who is the first of the female speakers in Section 3?
(a) Miss Lambert.
(b) Susan.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Jinny.

13. Who says, "I am one person--myself"?
(a) Louis.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Neville.
(d) Jinny.

14. In Section 2, Miss Lambert sits under a picture of whom?
(a) King James I.
(b) Queen Elizabeth.
(c) Queen Alexandra.
(d) Queen Victoria.

15. Who did Bernard seek to comfort during Section 1?
(a) Susan.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Neville.
(d) Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first speaker musing on at the beginning of Section 3?

2. In Section 3, what common action does Jinny find "strange"?

3. Who provides an elaborate description of bathing at the end of the day?

4. What does Bernard describe during his first line of monologue?

5. What physical feature does Rhoda struggle to identify on others?

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