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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Neville conclude at the end of his Section 6 monologue?
(a) That he will commit suicide.
(b) That Percival's death has paralyzed him.
(c) That Percival had no effect on him.
(d) That, despite his love for Percival, he could find another man to love.

3. Who notices the hand-holding between two characters in Section 8?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Susan.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Jinny.

4. Which of the characters begins Section 8?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Susan.
(d) Louis.

5. What one word is repeated throughout Susan's monologue in Section 6?
(a) Time,
(b) Sleep.
(c) Seasons.
(d) Waves.

6. In Section 6, Who remarks, "Percival has died . . . Life passes."?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Susan.
(c) Louis.
(d) Neville.

7. Who "gape[s] like a young bird, unsatisfied, for something that has escaped me" in Section 8?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Louis.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Susan.

8. What does Rhoda offer to Percival in Section 5?
(a) Daisies.
(b) Begonias.
(c) Violets.
(d) Roses.

9. By the end of Section 6, what can we say for sure about Neville's feelings towards Percival?
(a) That he hated Percival.
(b) That he felt Percival unduely held a position of high-regard.
(c) That he was in love with Percival.
(d) That Percival confused him.

10. Who is the next speaker in Section 7?
(a) Susan.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Jinny.

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

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

13. What significant fact do we learn about Susan's life in Section 6?
(a) That she is dying.
(b) That she is in love with Louis.
(c) That she had an affair with Percival.
(d) That she has a baby.

14. Where do we learn Bernard travels to in Section 7?
(a) Venice.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Indian.
(d) Rome.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which speaker follows Susan in Section 7?

2. In Section 8, who oddly compares herself to a dog?

3. At one point in Section 6, Jinny says she is being "flung up, and flung down, like . . ." what?

4. On what street is Rhoda walking when the reader encounters her in Section 5?

5. In Section 8, what prevents the characters from relaxing around each other?

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