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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who utters Section 4's final words, "Now Percival is gone"?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Susan.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Neville.

4. What is Bernard doing at the beginning of Section 3?
(a) Meeting Susan.
(b) Talking to Percival.
(c) Writing a letter.
(d) Eating dinner.

5. What does Bernard describe during his first line of monologue?
(a) A globe.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A spider's web.
(d) Fruity smells.

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

7. How old is Rhoda in Section 3?
(a) Not yet 21.
(b) Just turned 25.
(c) Almost 15.
(d) Just turned 19.

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

9. Who is the first character to speak?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Louis.

10. Who is fond of the "orderly progress" exhibited by the schoolboys?
(a) Percival.
(b) Dr. Crane.
(c) Louis.
(d) Bernard.

11. Who takes the children for a "brisk walk"?
(a) Miss Hudson.
(b) Biddy.
(c) Mrs. Constable.
(d) Mis Curry.

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

13. How does Rhoda characterize herself at the end of Section 3?
(a) As a fighter.
(b) As a girl.
(c) As a lover.
(d) As a woman.

14. Who does Bernard refer to as "the authentics" in Section 4?
(a) Neville and Jinny.
(b) Jinny and Susan.
(c) Susan and Rhoda.
(d) Louis and Rhoda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who professes that Bernard looks composed?

2. What does Neville declare himself to be in Section 3?

3. What do the characters wish to do with the moment they share in the restaurant in Section 4?

4. What is Susan doing when she begins her major monologue in Section 3?

5. Who repeats variations of the phrase, "I will gather my flowers and present them--Oh! to whom?"

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