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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. Who is not permitted to go on the walk?
(a) Susan.
(b) Louis.
(c) Neville.
(d) Jinny.
2. Which of the female characters seems most content with her place in life when the reader encounters her in Section 3?
(a) Miss Lambert.
(b) Susan.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Jinny.
3. What are the boys doing when the monologues in Section 2 return to their perspective?
(a) Playing at recess.
(b) Heading to classes.
(c) Going to chapel.
(d) Walking to lunch.
4. How does Wolfe describe the birds' song at the beginning of the first section?
(a) "A disruptive cacophony."
(b) "Barely audible."
(c) "A blank melody outside."
(d) "Like the chiming of bells."
5. Which of the children struggles with mathematics?
(a) Louis.
(b) Susan.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Neville.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who provides an elaborate description of bathing at the end of the day?
2. Why is one of the characters not permitted to go on the walk in Section 1?
3. How does Rhoda characterize herself at the end of Section 3?
4. Who says, "I am one person--myself"?
5. What is the first speaker musing on at the beginning of Section 3?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the way Section 3's introduction, the italicized vignette, fits in with the rest of Section 3 as a whole.
2. Overall, what should the reader take away as most significant from Section 1?
3. How does the group act differently when Percival arrives in Section 4?
4. What is the significance of having each character introduce themselves by identifying a specific image in Section 1?
5. Why is Susan so distressed after she saw Jinny kiss Louis?
6. Briefly analyze Neville's attitude towards religion.
7. What is significant about the way Section 2 is introduced?
8. Describe the fears, or the lack of fears, that the characters articulate in Section 3.
9. Which of the characters appears most at ease in Section 3, and why?
10. Why does Woolf use a line or two of monologue rather than dialogue to introduce the children in Section 1?
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