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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) Neville.
(b) Susan.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Bernard.

2. Who has the first monologue of this Section 6?
(a) Louis.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Susan.
(d) Bernard.

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

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

5. What does Bernard seem to be struggling to do during his final monologue of Section 8?
(a) Read.
(b) Talk.
(c) Write.
(d) Sleep.

6. How old is Jinny when the reader encounters her in Section 6?
(a) "Not yet thirty."
(b) "Nearly thirty-five."
(c) "Just forty."
(d) "Past thirty."

7. Who is most deeply affected by the significant news in Section 5?
(a) Louis.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Neville.

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. Who is the first speaker in Section 7?
(a) Susan.
(b) Neville.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Rhoda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 8, when does Bernard arrive in relation to the other characters?

2. Where are the characters gathering in Section 8?

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

4. In Section 7, which two people does Susan name as those she "thinks sometimes of"?

5. In Section 5, who asks, "but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?"

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