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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Louis doing upon the commencement of his major monologue in Section 3?
(a) Meeting Bernard and Neville.
(b) Writing.
(c) Meeting Susan.
(d) Reading and eating.

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

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

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

5. Who is this Section 4's opening speaker?
(a) Percival.
(b) Louis.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Bernard.

6. How did the character who witnesses the kiss in Section 1 react to it?
(a) With fear and despair.
(b) With anger and confusion.
(c) With joy and excitement.
(d) By also trying to kiss Louis.

7. Which subject do the children appear to have a strong grasp of?
(a) Science.
(b) History.
(c) English Grammar.
(d) Mathematics.

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

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

10. What makes Jinny feel "native" in her environment?
(a) A picture on the wall.
(b) The gaudiness of her surroundings.
(c) The music.
(d) The people constantly passing her.

11. What is Susan doing when she begins her major monologue in Section 3?
(a) Walking through London.
(b) Walking in the early morning.
(c) Going to sleep.
(d) Meeting Jinny and Rhoda.

12. What is significant about what day it is at the end of Section 2?
(a) It is the last day of the boys' first term at school.
(b) It is the boys' first day of their second year at school.
(c) It is the boys' last day at school.
(d) It is the last day of summer.

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

14. Who "only understands cries of love, hate, rage and pain"?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Susan.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Louis.

15. Who shifts in his seat in Section 2 so that he might catch a glimpse of Percival?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Louis.
(c) Dr. Crane.
(d) Neville.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rhoda characterize herself at the end of Section 3?

2. Which character opens Section 2's monologues?

3. Who refers to "sudden kisses" as a "crudity"?

4. Which of the characters muses on a book that he wishes to keep when he is older?

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

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