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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 two emotions seem to dominate Rhoda's Section 7 monologue?
(a) Anger and resentment.
(b) Contentment and joy.
(c) Aggressiveness and anger.
(d) Indifference and depression.

2. Which speaker follows Susan in Section 7?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Louis.
(d) Neville.

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

4. What do we learn from the end of Louis's major monologue in Section 6?
(a) That he has moved in with Susan.
(b) That he is having an affair with Jinny.
(c) That he and Neville have begun an affair.
(d) That he is having an affair with Rhoda.

5. In Section 6, Who remarks, "Percival has died . . . Life passes."?
(a) Louis.
(b) Neville.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Susan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rhoda offer to Percival in Section 5?

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

3. What time of day does the passage at the beginning of Section 5 describe?

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

5. Where are the characters gathering in Section 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Section 6, we encounter the three character who were omitted from the previous section. Describe their places in life at this point.

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

3. Why is it significant that Bernard is not the first speaker in Section 5?

4. Describe how Louis appears in Section 6.

5. What is different about Susan in Section 7?

6. What is the significance of the way the birds are depicted in Section 7's introduction?

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

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

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

10. What are the characters doing at the beginning of Section 8, and why is that important?

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