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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 significant fact do we learn about Louis's love-life in the course of his major Section 7 monologue?
(a) He is a homosexual.
(b) He and Rhoda are married.
(c) Rhoda has left him.
(d) He has struck up an affair with Jinny.

2. In Section 5, Neville struggles to accomplish what simple act?
(a) Getting out of bed.
(b) Climbing stairs.
(c) Getting dressed.
(d) Bathing.

3. 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.

4. When Neville hears the significant news in Section 5, to what does he compare it?
(a) Waking from a dream.
(b) The end of his life.
(c) The kiss between Jinny and Louis.
(d) The loss of a family member.

5. In Section 7, where is Louis's new house?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Leeds.
(c) London.
(d) Surrey.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does Bernard stay where he travels in Section 7?

2. What time is it when Bernard begins his last monologue of Section 8?

3. Who notices the hand-holding between two characters in Section 8?

4. With what event in Bernard's life does the major news in Section 5 coincide?

5. In Section 8, who contends that the characters have "destroyed something by our presence"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the characters feel during the dinner they share in Section 8.

2. What is different about Susan in Section 7?

3. How does Bernard's role change in Section 8, and what evidence do you have to support that?

4. Describe the way Louis is characterized in Section 7.

5. How does the structure of Section 5 parallel the development of the characters?

6. Elaborate on what Rhoda identifies as the problems the characters have faced in their lives in Section 8.

7. Characterize Neville's state of mind as he appears at the end of Section 6.

8. What do the characters do after they leave the restaurant in Section 8, and what happens then?

9. What is most notable about Section 5's opening description and why?

10. Which image becomes more dominant in Section 8's introductory vignette, and what do you think it signifies?

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