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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Bernard and Rhoda assert Percival was in love with?
(a) Susan.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Neville.
(d) Rhoda.

2. In Section 5, who does Rhoda refer to as "a snob"?
(a) Louis.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Percival.
(d) Neville.

3. Who refers to "the hieroglyphs written on other people's faces" in Section 6?
(a) Susan.
(b) Neville.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Louis.

4. What significant fact do we learn about Louis's love-life in the course of his major Section 7 monologue?
(a) He has struck up an affair with Jinny.
(b) He is a homosexual.
(c) He and Rhoda are married.
(d) Rhoda has left him.

5. What is most notable about Jinny's Section 6 monologue?
(a) She speaks solely about herself and Percival.
(b) She does not mention the children she has.
(c) She speaks in iambic pentameter.
(d) She does not mention any of the other characters.

6. What is the effect of the sun's beams at the beginning of Section 5?
(a) They clearly define the objects they touch.
(b) They burn and destroy what they touch.
(c) They produce a glare off of everything they touch.
(d) They turn everything they touch white.

7. In Section 8, who contends that the characters have "destroyed something by our presence"?
(a) Louis.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Neville.

8. What time of day does the passage at the beginning of Section 5 describe?
(a) Late night.
(b) Morning.
(c) Evening.
(d) Midday.

9. Which of the characters recognizes themselves as the group's strongest member in Section 5?
(a) Susan.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Louis.
(d) Neville.

10. Whose Section 6 monologue features a musing on the passing of seasons?
(a) Bernard's.
(b) Susan's.
(c) Louis's.
(d) Neville's.

11. What phrase does Susan use to describe her position in life as it is in Section 7?
(a) That she, "divests herself of her authority."
(b) She has "reached the summit of her desires."
(c) That she is "not one of those who find their satisfaction in one person, or in infinity."
(d) That she is, "no longer young. No longer part of the procession."

12. What is the best way to characterize the tone of Bernard's first Section 8 monologue?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Uneasy or anxious.
(c) Angry.
(d) Elated.

13. Which speaker follows Susan in Section 7?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Louis.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Neville.

14. On what street is Rhoda walking when the reader encounters her in Section 5?
(a) Hampton Court.
(b) Comstock Hill.
(c) Oxford Street.
(d) Strawberry Hill.

15. Where do we find the sun at the beginning of Section 7?
(a) "Lowest in the sky."
(b) "Low in the sky."
(c) "High in the sky."
(d) "Lower in the sky."

Short Answer Questions

1. As the reader encounters him in Section 7, toward whom does Neville express some resentment or jealousy?

2. Where are the characters gathering in Section 8?

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

4. What time is it when Bernard begins his last monologue of Section 8?

5. How old is Jinny when the reader encounters her in Section 6?

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