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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Which of the characters appears most able to move on from the significant news in Section 5?
(a) Louis.
(b) Susan.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Bernard.

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

14. In Section 8, when does Bernard arrive in relation to the other characters?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Last.
(c) Second.
(d) First.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Section 7, what does Jinny resign herself to being in regards to the rest of her life?

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

3. What two emotions seem to dominate Rhoda's Section 7 monologue?

4. What about her life is Jinny bemoaning when she begins her monologue in Section 7?

5. How does Jinny characterize her social life as it is in Section 6?

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