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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does Percival's presence have on the characters when he arrives in Section 4?
(a) It enrages them.
(b) It causes them to leave.
(c) It confuses them.
(d) It calms them.

2. Who is picking flowers alone in the novel's first section?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Susan.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Louis.

3. How does Rhoda characterize herself at the end of Section 3?
(a) As a woman.
(b) As a fighter.
(c) As a lover.
(d) As a girl.

4. Who arrives to pick up Rhoda at the end of Section 1?
(a) Biddy.
(b) Her Aunt.
(c) Percival.
(d) Miss Hudson.

5. What is Bernard doing at the beginning of Section 3?
(a) Writing a letter.
(b) Meeting Susan.
(c) Eating dinner.
(d) Talking to Percival.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 3, what common action does Jinny find "strange"?

2. What does Bernard describe during his first line of monologue?

3. Which subject do the children appear to have a strong grasp of?

4. Who instigated the kiss in the garden?

5. To what does the narrator compare the sound of the waves at the end of Section 3's beginning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about displaying the children in school in the novel's first section?

2. Describe the fears, or the lack of fears, that the characters articulate in Section 3.

3. Describe how each character is presented in Section 1.

4. Characterize how Louis expresses his differences from Neville and Bernard in Section 3.

5. Which of the characters appears most at ease in Section 3, and why?

6. Briefly analyze Neville's attitude towards religion.

7. What is significant about the way Section 2 is introduced?

8. Describe in your own words the scene at the very beginning of Section 1, and offer an idea of why Woolf would begin this novel in such a way.

9. Describe how Neville and Bernard are different as they appear in Section 3.

10. Bernard is clearly becoming the most central of the six characters. Describe his characteristics as he appears in Section 3.

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