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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jinny characterize her social life as it is in Section 6?
(a) Constant, but boring.
(b) Altogether absent.
(c) No longer important to her.
(d) Constant and vibrant.

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

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

4. In Section 5, who asks, "but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?"
(a) Neville.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Jinny.

5. Who does Bernard decide against comforting in Section 5?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Susan.
(c) Louis.
(d) Neville.

6. What about her life is Jinny bemoaning when she begins her monologue in Section 7?
(a) That she has grown fat.
(b) That she cannot find a husband.
(c) That she cannot bear children.
(d) That she has aged.

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

8. Where has the sun moved to at the beginning of Section 6?
(a) It is past the mid-point in the sky.
(b) It is not out at all because it is night.
(c) It is just rising.
(d) It is setting.

9. What do we learn from the end of Louis's major monologue in Section 6?
(a) That he is having an affair with Jinny.
(b) That he has moved in with Susan.
(c) That he and Neville have begun an affair.
(d) That he is having an affair with Rhoda.

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

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

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

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

14. In Section 5, how does Bernard describe Percival's presence in the lives of the other characters?
(a) As a mediator.
(b) As spiritual.
(c) As a conductor.
(d) As didactic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is most notable about Jinny's Section 6 monologue?

2. In Section 6, Who remarks, "Percival has died . . . Life passes."?

3. What is the dominant feature of the monologues during the middle of Section 8?

4. What one word is repeated throughout Susan's monologue in Section 6?

5. What is the first thing the reader learns in Section 5?

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