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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. What does the italicized prose at the beginning of the first section describe?
2. How did the character who witnesses the kiss in Section 1 react to it?
3. What is the dominant image in the beginning of Section 2?
4. Which of the female characters does Neville express respect for?
5. What significant fact does the reader learn about Bernard's life early in Section 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Woolf use a line or two of monologue rather than dialogue to introduce the children in Section 1?
2. Which of the characters appears most at ease in Section 3, and why?
3. Describe the way Section 3's introduction, the italicized vignette, fits in with the rest of Section 3 as a whole.
4. When the characters change locations in the text, it is not always noticeable. Identify why this is and the effect on the reader.
5. Which of the boys seems to have the strongest attachment to Percival? Please provide some evidence in your answer.
6. Why is Bernard's announcement of his engagement in Section 4 significant?
7. 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.
8. Describe how each character is presented in Section 1.
9. Describe how Neville and Bernard are different as they appear in Section 3.
10. Briefly analyze Neville's attitude towards religion.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In a detailed essay, outline the role Rhoda plays in the group. Is she a kind of tragic hero? What is the source or her paralysis and misanthropy? Fully describe this character using ample textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Two characters die in this text, Rhoda and Percival, and there are at least two births, to Susan and Bernard. Evaluate the significance of the death of these two characters.
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