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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Bernard refer to as "the authentics" in Section 4?
2. Who is enamored with the light caused by Miss Lambert's ring?
3. What is Louis's profession when the reader encounters him in Section 3?
4. Who arrives to pick up Rhoda at the end of Section 1?
5. Who decides to "put off my hopeless desire to be Susan, to be Jinny"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the differences in Jinny and Rhoda's experience's while at school in Section 2.
2. Why is Bernard's announcement of his engagement in Section 4 significant?
3. Describe the way Section 3's introduction, the italicized vignette, fits in with the rest of Section 3 as a whole.
4. Why does Woolf use a line or two of monologue rather than dialogue to introduce the children in Section 1?
5. Bernard is clearly becoming the most central of the six characters. Describe his characteristics as he appears in Section 3.
6. How are Jinny and Rhoda characterized in Section 3?
7. Describe the boys' experiences in chapel while at school in Section 2.
8. As the characters appear in Section 2, do you feel that they are becoming more or less self-aware? Briefly explain your answer with relevant examples from the text.
9. Describe how Neville and Bernard are different as they appear in Section 3.
10. 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.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the characters of Louis and Bernard, who seem to constantly sway between admiration and jealousy toward each other. Why do they pursue such separate life paths? What leads them to their major decisions? How do they find themselves at the novel's conclusion? What makes them arguably the two most similar characters in the text?
Essay Topic 2
What is the role of a narrator in a typical novel? Is there are narrator in this text? Are each of the six characters a "narrator" because they "narrate?" How do you characterize the speaker that relates the introductory vignettes? Is Woolf the novel's narrator, or merely its architect? Explain what a narrator is, what kinds of narrators there are, whether there are any in this text, and if not, how that affects its reception by the reader.
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate the structure of this novel in the course of a detailed essay. Evaluate and identify the rising and falling action as well as the climax. Explain whether this text would have been executed more effectively if Woolf had chosen a different form rather than the constant intertwining of interior monologues.
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