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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Section 8, who oddly compares herself to a dog?
(a) Susan.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Neville.

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

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

4. In Section 7, which two people does Susan name as those she "thinks sometimes of"?
(a) Bernard and Louis.
(b) Neville and Percival.
(c) Jinny and Rhoda.
(d) Percival and Rhoda.

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

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

7. In Section 7, how does the poem which Louis muses on begin?
(a) "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan . . ."
(b) "One must have a mind of winter . . ."
(c) "O western wind . . ."
(d) "The rain set early in to-night . . ."

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

9. In Section 6, who does Susan deride towards the end of her monologue?
(a) Neville.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Percival.
(d) Jinny.

10. What is the first thing the reader learns in Section 5?
(a) That Bernard is divorced.
(b) That Jinny is married.
(c) That Percival has died.
(d) That Neville has moved.

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

12. In Section 8, who says, "I have been torn apart"?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Neville.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Jinny.

13. As the reader encounters him in Section 7, toward whom does Neville express some resentment or jealousy?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Susan.
(c) Louis.
(d) Rhoda.

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

15. What are the two dominant images of Section 8's introduction?
(a) Both the waves and the sun are sinking in power.
(b) The nighttime sky and the calm waters.
(c) The sun sinking as the waves become the dominant image.
(d) The waves receding as the sun burns brighter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the effect of the sun's beams at the beginning of Section 5?

2. In the beginning of Section 5, what state does Woolf describe the sun as being in?

3. What kind of insect does Woolf describe in the elaborate simile at the beginning of Section 7?

4. What do we learn from the end of Louis's major monologue in Section 6?

5. In Section 5, Neville struggles to accomplish what simple act?

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