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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. 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.

2. In Section 8, what prevents the characters from relaxing around each other?
(a) The lack of drinks.
(b) The lack of food.
(c) The time they have spent apart.
(d) The absence of Percival.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bernard travel towards the end of his major monologue in Section 5?

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

3. In Section 5, who does Rhoda refer to as "a snob"?

4. Where do we learn Bernard travels to in Section 7?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Percival's death have a strong effect on Bernard in Section 5?

3. What is different about Susan in Section 7?

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

5. Describe how Susan appears in Section 6.

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

7. Characterize the way Bernard appears in Section 5.

8. What in particular separates Section 7 from the prior two sections, and why is that significant?

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

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

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